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>

 

Title of document. Located in header,what you type inbetween these tags will display at the top of browser window .

<body>
</body>
background
bgcolor
bgsound
font
link
alink
vlink
topmargin
leftmargin 
marginheight
marginwidth
Applies attributes to entire document

Modify Text

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

Tag

Property

Description

<a> </a> href
target
style
class
name
id
Generates a link to other documents or locations

Images

Tag

Property

Description

<img> src
alt
name
border
height
width
Creates an image

Formatting

Tag

Property

Description

<blockquote>
</blockquote>
Used for long quotes. Indents all text and images within the tags.

Sample of text in a block quote format

<ol> </ol> Ordered List (used with <li>)
  1. Item 1
<ul> </ul> Unordered List (used with <li>)
  • Item 1
<li> List element
<dd> </dd> Definition List

Sample text

<dt> Definition Term
Sample text
<dd> Definition Description Sample text
<p> </p> Paragraph return Sample 

text

<br> Line break Sample
text
<hr> Horizontal rule

<center>
</center>

Center elements
Sample

Tables

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

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
password name
value
width
maxlength
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
reset value
<select> </select> name
size
Create Drop-down boxes. Used in conjunction with option
<option> selected
name
value
<textarea> </textarea> name
rows
cols
wrap
wrap off
virtual
physical
no wrap
word wrap, sent as one line
word wrap, sent with breaks