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| <HTML>...</HTML> | Encloses the entire document and identifies it as an html document. |
| <HEAD>...</HEAD> | Contains the head information, such as Meta and Title tags. |
| <TITLE>...</TITLE> | Indicates the title of the page |
| <BODY>...</BODY> | Contains all markup that sets the layout of the page. |
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>...</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>...</BODY>
</HTML>
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| <META...> | Provides descriptions about the document. Search engines such as Webcrawler spider these tags to find what your page is about. |
| NAME="..." | Describes the type of description. KEYWORDS, or DESCRIPTION. |
| CONTENT="..." | Contains the keywords, or the description. |
<HEAD>
<META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="...">....
<META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="...">....
</HEAD>
The title tags (<TITLE>...</TITLE>) go somewhere between the head tags. The text that goes between the tags is the title that you choose for your page. For example:
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Flintlock's Homepage</TITLE>
</HEAD>
With the meta tags:
<HEAD>
<META NAME="KEYWORDS">...
<META NAME="DESCRIPTION">...
<TITLE>Flintlock's Homepage</TITLE>
</HEAD>
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| BGCOLOR="rrggbb" | Sets the red, green, and blue values for the background color of the page. |
| BACKGROUND="url" | Sets an image to be used for the background |
| TEXT="rrggbb" | Sets the red, green, and blue values for the color of the text. |
| LINK="rrggbb" | Sets the red, green, and blue values for the color of the links. |
| VLINK="rrggbb" | Sets the red, green, and blue values for the color of the visited links. |
| ALINK="rrggbb" | Sets the red, green, and blue values for the color of the active links. |
| TOPMARGIN="..." | Sets the value for the height of the top margin.
Either "0" or > "0" |
| LEFTMARGIN="..." | Sets the value for the width of the left margin.
Either "0" or >"0" |
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#CCCCCC"
ALINK="#FF0000" TOPMARGIN="5" LEFTMARGIN="5">...
</BODY>
note: If the top and left margin values are left out, then the
browser will set a default value for them.
These are tags you can use in conjunction with text to form what you see when you view the page.
Character Level
Linking
Lists
Images
Tables
Forms
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| <!--...--> | Inserts a comment. |
| <BR> | Forces a line to break. |
| <H1>...</H1>, <H2>...</H2>, <H3>...</H3>, <H4>...</H4>, <H5>...</H5>, <H6>...</H6> | Heading tags; H1 being the tag to go around the biggest header. H6 being the smallest. |
| <HR> | Inserts a horizontal rule |
| COLOR="rrggbb" | Sets the red, green, and blue values for the color of the horizontal rule. |
| SIZE="..." | Gives the line a width value in pixels or % of page width. |
| WIDTH="..." | Gives the line an exact width value in pixels. |
| ALIGN="..." | Aligns the line at either the LEFT, RIGHT, or CENTER of the page. |
| NOSHADE | Prvents the line from being shaded. |
| <NOBR>...</NOBR> | Specifies items that should not be broken up to fit the page. |
| <P> | Breaks the line, and spaces for a new paragraph. |
| <B>...</B> | Encloses text to be bold. |
| <BLINK>...</BLINK> | Makes text blink. |
| <I>...</I> | Encloses text to be italicised (italics). |
| <FONT>...</FONT> | Changes the font of the text. |
| COLOR="rrggbb" | Sets the red, green, and blue values for the color of the new font. |
| FACE="..." | Sets the typeface for the new font. |
| SIZE="..." | Changes font size from 1 to 7. |
| <SUB>...</SUB> | Subscript |
| <SUP>...</SUP> | Superscript |
| <U>...</U> | Underlines text. |
| <DD> | Indents |
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| <UL>...</UL> | Begins an unordered (bullet) list. |
| <OL>...</OL> | Begins an ordered list. |
| TYPE="A, a, I, i, or 1" | Specifies the character to be displayed next to each item in the definition
list.
A=Large letters, a=Small letters, I=Large roman numerals, i=small roman numerals, and 1=numbers. |
| <LI> | Begins each item in the list. |
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| <IMG> | Inserts an image. |
| SRC="..." | Provides the location of the image. |
| ALIGN="..." | Aligns the accompanying text for the image at RIGHT, LEFT MIDDLE, TOP, and BOTTOM of the image. |
| ALT="..." | Gives alternate text that will be displayed if the image is not. |
| BORDER="..." | Specifies the border width around the image in a numerical value. |
| HEIGHT="..." | Specifies the height of the image in pixels. |
| WIDTH="..." | Specifies the width of the image in pixels. |
| TITLE="..." | Gives the image an accompanying title. |
| LOWSRC="..." | Specifies the location of a smaller, faster loading image that will be displayed before the real image will. |
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| <TABLE>...</TABLE> | See the table page |
| CELLSPACING="..." | See the table page |
| CELLPADDING="..." | See the table page |
| WIDTH="..." | See the table page |
| BORDER="..." | See the table page |
| BORDERCOLOR="..." | See the table page |
| <TR>...</TR> | See the table page |
| <TD>...</TD> | See the table page |
| WIDTH="..." | See the table page |
| BORDER="..." | See the table page |
| VALIGN="..." | See the table page |
| BORDERCOLOR="..." | See the table page |
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| <BGSOUND> | Indicates background sounds |
| SRC="url" | Specifies location of the background sound |
| LOOP="..." | How many times (number or INFINITE) the sound plays |
| <MARQUEE> | Spcifies marquee text. |
| ALIGN="..." | aligns text arund the marquee at TOP, MIDDLE, or BOTTOM of the marquee. |
| BEHAVIOR="..." | SCROLL, SLIDE, or ALTERNATE |
| BGCOLOR="rrggbb" | Specifies the background color of the marquee. |
| DIRECTION="..." | LEFT or RIGHT |
| HEIGHT="..." | Specifies the height of the marquee. |
| HSPACE="..." | Specifies left and right margins in pixels |
| LOOP="..." | Number, or INFINITE |
| SCROLLAMOUNT=".." | Specifies the number of pixels between each successive progression of the marquee text. |
| SCROLLDELAY="...' | Specifies the number of milliseconds between each successive draw of the marquee. |
| VSPACE="..." | Specifies top and bottom margins in pixels. |
| WIDTH="..." | Specifies the width of the marquee. |
