<del> Tag Attributes

Attributes of the <del> tag
global attributes In addition to the personal attributes of the <del> tag below, any of the common HTML attributes can also be coded.
cite

a URI reference (or IRI reference depending on the encoding) that resolves to the URI of a document that explains the reason for the deletion or a fragment of a document describing multiple changes.

Use percent escape codes as explained in the URL Encoding Tutorial for any special characters in the URI reference.

If the value of the cite attribute is an HTTP URI, it may contain any of the following components:

  1. protocol scheme, typically http: or else https:
  2. username, followed by an "@"
  3. host name or IP address
  4. port number, which defaults to 80 for the http scheme and 443 for the https scheme
  5. absolute or relative path
  6. search query, indicated by "?"
  7. fragment identifier, indicated by "#"

If the protocol scheme, username, host name/IP address and port number are omitted the default is the current host - the same server as the base of the current document. If the path starts with a slash /..., it is an absolute path from the document root directory (AKA "web root") on the server. A relative path will be resolved relative to the base of the current document. A URI with a "#" but no fragment identifier points to the top of the document.

datetime="mm/dd/yyyy"
datetime="mm/dd/yyyyThh:mm-zz:zz"
The datetime attribute contains the date or date and time that the change was made.