The <meter> tag defines a measurement. Used only for measurements with a known minimum and maximum value.
Supported In HTML4: No
Supported In HTML5: Yes
HTML4 vs HTML5 Differences: The <meter> tag is new in HTML 5.
Attributes
| Title | Values | Description | HTML4 Support | HTML5 Support |
| high | number | Defines at which point the measurement's value is consider a high value | No | Yes |
| low | number | Defines at which point the measurement's value is consider a low value | No | No |
| max | number | Defines the maximum value. Default value is 1 | No | No |
| min | number | Defines the minimum value. Default value is 0 | No | No |
| optimum | number | Defines what measurement's value is the best value. If this value is higher then the "high" attribute's value, it means that the higher value the better. If this value is lower than the "low" attribute's value, it means that the lower value the better. | No | No |
| value | number | Defines the measurement's value | No | No |
Standard Attributes
All standard attributes are supported.
Event Attributes
All event attributes are supported.
HTML5 Tags
- a
- abbr
- acronym
- address
- applet
- area
- article
- aside
- audio
- b
- base
- basefont
- bdo
- big
- blockquote
- body
- br
- button
- canvas
- caption
- center
- cite
- code
- col
- colgroup
- command
- datalist
- dd
- del
- details
- dfn
- dir
- div