Basic Tags
| Begin an HTML file |
<HTML> |
| Start Header |
<HEAD> |
| Define Title for document |
<TITLE> |
| Close Title |
</TITLE> |
| Close Header |
</HEAD> |
| Begin Body content (include all file content after this tag) |
<BODY> |
| Close Body |
</BODY> |
| Close HTML code |
</HTML> |
Alternative Body Tags
| <BODY BACKGROUND="file.ext"> ... </BODY> |
Body with a background consisting of an image where file.ext is the name of the file. |
| <BODY BGCOLOR=#XXXXXX> ... </BODY> |
Body with a colored background, where XXXXXX is the hex code for a particular color. #FFFFFFis white, while #000000 is black. |
| <BODY LINK="#XXXXXX" alink="#XXXXXX" vlink="#XXXXXX" > ... </BODY> |
Body with colored links, active links, and visited links, where XXXXXX are colors in hex. The colors do not need to be the same. |
Text Dividers
| <BR> |
Begin a new line |
| <P> |
Begin a new line after a blank line |
| <HR> |
Insert a horizontal line |
Headers
| <Hx> .... </Hx> |
Header, where x is a number from 1 to 6,
the larger the number, the smaller and less prominent the Header becomes. |
Preformatted Text
| <PRE> .... </PRE> |
Text in a fixed width font which causes spaces,
new lines, and tabs to become evident |
Quotations
| <BLOCKQUOTE> .... </BLOCKQUOTE> |
Creates a block of indented text. |
Character Formatting
| <B> ... </B> |
Bold the enclosed text |
| <I> ... </I> |
Italicize the enclosed text |
| <U> ... </U> |
Underline the enclosed text |
| <sub> ... </sub> |
Subscript the enclosed text |
| <sup>... </sup> |
Superscript the enclosed text |
Lists
| <UL> |
Set up an unordered list |
| </UL> |
Close an unordered list |
| <OL> |
Set up an ordered list |
| </OL> |
Close an ordered list |
| <LI> |
Identify each item in an ordered or unordered list |
| <OL START=#> |
Begin numbering with a specific Arabic numeral |
| <OL STYLE=A> |
Use capital letters |
| <OL STYLE=a> |
Use lowercase letters |
| <OL STYLE=I> |
Use capital Roman numerals |
| <OL STYLE=i> |
Use lowercase Roman numerals |
| <DL> ... </DL> |
Enclosed items form a definition list |
| <DT> |
Definition term |
| <DD> |
Definiton data (indents five spaces) |
Images
| <IMG SRC="filename.ext"> |
Include an image, where filename.ext is the name of the .jpg, .bmp, or .gif file. |
| <IMG SRC="filename.ext" ALT="my file"> |
Provide an alternate text name (my file) for an image in a non-graphical browser |
| <IMG ALIGN="middle" SRC="filename.ext"> |
align text with the center of an image |
Links
| <A HREF="http://file.html">link</A> |
Create a link to a file locally or at a remote URL named file.html with a link name of link |
<A HREF="mailto: someone@place.com">
someone@place.com</A> |
Create a link to send mail to someone@place.com |
Special Characters
| & |
& |
| ® |
® |
| © |
© |
| > |
> |
| < |
< |
| " |
" |
| À |
Capital A with a grave mark, À |
| é |
Lowercase e with an acute mark, é |
| ö |
Lowercase o with umlaut, ö |
| |
Non-breaking space |
Comments
| <!-- ... -- > |
Text within these tags will not be displayed |
