HTML Reference Chart |
Tag |
Property |
Description |
|---|---|---|
<html> |
Begin | First line of all html documents |
| </html> | End | Last line of all html documents |
| <head> </head> |
Houses general browser information for web page | |
<title> |
Title of document. Located in header,what you type inbetween these tags will display at the top of browser window . |
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| <body> </body> |
background bgcolor bgsound font link alink vlink topmargin leftmargin marginheight marginwidth |
Applies attributes to entire document |
Modify Text |
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Tag |
Description |
Example |
<b> </b> |
Bolded text | Sample text |
| <i> </i> | Italicized text | Sample text |
| <u> </u> | Underlined text | Sample text |
| <pre> </pre> | Preformatted text | Sample text |
| <h1> </h1> | Header 1 |
Header 1 |
| <h2> </h2> | Header 2 |
Header 2 |
| <h3> </h3> | Header 3 |
Header 3 |
| <h4> </h4> | Header 4 | Header 4 |
| <h5> </h5> | Header 5 | Header 5 |
| <h6> </h6> | Header 6 | Header 6 |
| <sub> </sub> | Subscript | Subscript |
| <sup> </sup> | Superscript | Superscript |
| <font> </font> |
color size name |
Applies style to text |
Creating Links |
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Tag |
Property |
Description |
| <a> </a> | href target style class name id |
Generates a link to other documents or locations |
Images |
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Tag |
Property |
Description |
| <img> | src alt name border height width |
Creates an image |
Formatting |
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Tag |
Property |
Description |
| <blockquote> </blockquote> |
Used for long quotes. Indents all text and images within the tags. |
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| <ol> </ol> | Ordered List (used with <li>) |
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| <ul> </ul> | Unordered List (used with <li>) |
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| <li> | List element | |
| <dd> </dd> | Definition List | Sample text |
| <dt> | Definition Term |
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| <dd> | Definition Description | Sample text |
| <p> </p> | Paragraph return | Sample
text |
| <br> | Line break | Sample text |
| <hr> | Horizontal rule | |
<center> |
Center elements | Sample |
Tables |
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Tag |
Property |
Description |
| <table> </table> | border cellpadding cellspacing width height name id title bgcolor background align valign |
Holds the table elements |
| <tr> </tr> | height bgcolor background align valign title |
Defines a new row |
| <td> </td> | height width bgcolor background align valign title colspan rowspan |
Defines a table cell |
| <th> </th> | height width bgcolor background align valign title colspan rowspan |
Table header. Automatically bolds and centers contents |
| <tbody> </tbody> | height width align valign bgcolor backgroun |
Applies formatting to surrounded cells |
| <colgroup> </colgroup> | height width align valign bgcolor background colspan |
Applies formatting to given column |
Forms |
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Tag |
Property |
Description |
| <form> </form> |
method action name |
Holds the form elements |
| <input type=> | text password hidden radio checkbox submit image reset |
Various types of form elements |
| text | name value width maxlength |
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| password | name value width maxlength |
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| hidden | name value |
Used to pass hidden elements to forms |
| radio | name value |
Radio 1 Radio 2 |
| checkbox | name value checked |
Check 1 Check 2 |
| submit | value | |
| image | src height width alt name border |
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| reset | value | |
| <select> </select> | name size |
Create Drop-down boxes. Used in conjunction with option |
| <option> | selected name value |
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| <textarea> </textarea> | name rows cols wrap |
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| wrap | off virtual physical |
no wrap word wrap, sent as one line word wrap, sent with breaks |