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- A Simple Guide To HTML
- HTML Tag Reference - by Robert Duncan
- HTML Cheat Sheet | Back to the Main Guide |
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- Essential HTML Tags
- <HTML>
- <HEAD>
- <TITLE>Web Site Title</TITLE>
- </HEAD>
- <BODY>
- Contents of Web Site
- </BODY>
- </HTML>
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- Backgrounds and Colours | Colour Codes |
- <BODY> Tag Attributes
- BACKGROUND="url " Background Image
- BGCOLOR="#??????" Background Colour
- TEXT="#??????" Document Text Colour
- LINK="#??????" Link Colour
- VLINK="#??????" Visited Link Colour
- ALINK="#??????" Active Link Colour
- BGPROPERTIES="FIXED" Background Properties - "Fixed" to obtain a watermark type background
- LEFTMARGIN="?" Side Margin Size in Pixels (Internet Explorer)
- TOPMARGIN="?" Top Margin Size in Pixels (Internet Explorer)
- MARGINWIDTH="?" Side Margin Size in Pixels (Netscape Navigator)
- MARGINHEIGHT="?" Top and Bottom Margin Size in Pixels (Netscape Navigator)
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- Text Formatting | Top | Main Guide |
- <H?></H?> Quick Header - Sizes 1 (largest) to 6 (smallest).
- <B></B> Bold Text
- <I></I> Italic Text
- <U></U> Underline Text
- <CENTER></CENTER> Centre
- <STRIKE></STRIKE> Strikeout
- <SUB></SUB> Subscript - Smaller text placed below normal text
- <SUP></SUP> Superscript - Smaller text placed above normal text
- <FONT> Tag Attributes
- COLOR="#??????" Font Colour - Use Hex colour codes to replace question marks
- SIZE="?" Font Size: 1 (smallest) to 7 (largest)
- SIZE="+/-?" Font Size change - with respect to the text preceding it
- POINT-SIZE="?" Font Point Size (Netscape Navigator)
- FACE="***" Font Face (or just font) eg. Arial etc.
- <TT></TT> Typewriter Text
- <PRE></PRE> Preformatted Text
- <BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE> Block Quote
- <EM></EM> Emphasis - Shown in italics on most browsers
- <STRONG></STRONG> Strong - Shown in bold on most browsers
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- Section Divisions | Top | Main Guide |
- <P></P> Paragraph - Closing tag not usually required
- <BR> Line Break - (Carriage Return)
- <DIV></DIV> Division/Section - Also Alignment: ALIGN="LEFT, CENTER, RIGHT,JUSTIFY"
- <HR> Tag Attributes
- SIZE="?" Line Thickness in pixels
- WIDTH="?" Line Width in pixels
- WIDTH="??%" Line Width as a percentage
- COLOR="#??????" Line Colour
- NOSHADE No 3D Cut-out
- ALIGN="***" Alignment: LEFT, CENTER, RIGHT
- <NOBR></NOBR> No Line breaks
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- Graphics and Images | Top | Main Guide |
- <IMG> Tag Attributes
- SRC="url." Name and url of image
- ALIGN="***" Image Alignment
- WIDTH="??" Image Width (in pixels or %)
- HEIGHT="??" Image Height (in pixels of %)
- ALT="text " Alternate Text
- LOWSRC="url " Low Res Image name and url
- BORDER="?" Border Thickness in pixels
- VSPACE="?" Space above and below Image (in pixels)
- HSPACE="?" Space on sides of Image (in pixels)
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- Linking | Top | Main Guide |
- <A> Tag Attributes
- HREF="url " Location of page to link to.
- TARGET="***" Target for Link: _SELF, _PARENT, _BLANK, _TOP. Note: the _ (underscore) is needed!
- NAME="name " Name of a specific section on the page
- HREF="url#name" Link to a specific part in another Page
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- Lists | Top | Main Guide |
- <OL></OL> Ordered List
- <LI> Ordered List Item
- <OL> and <LI> Tag Attributes
- TYPE="?" List Type: A, a, I, i, 1
- OL - START="?" List Starting Value
- LI - VALUE="?" List Item Value
- <UL></UL> Un-Ordered List
- <LI> Un-Ordered List Item
- <UL> and <LI> Tag Attributes
- TYPE="?" List Type: DISC, CIRCLE, SQUARE
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- Tables | Top | Main Guide |
- <TABLE> - Table - Tag Attributes
- BORDER="?" Border Thickness in pixels
- BORDERCOLOR="#??????" Border Colour
- CELLPADDING="?" Space between inside line of cell and text
- CELLSPACING="?" Space between inside and outside line of 2 adjacent cell borders
- WIDTH="?" Table width (pixels or %)
- HEIGHT="?" Table Height (pixels or %)
- BACKGROUND="url " Background Image
- BGCOLOR="#??????" Background Colour
- TEXT="#??????" Document Text Colour
- ALIGN="?" Horizontal Alignment: LEFT, CENTER, RIGHT
- <TR> - Table Row - Tag Attributes
- ALIGN="?" Horizontal Alignment: LEFT, CENTER, RIGHT
- VALIGN="?" Vertical Alignment: TOP, MIDDLE, BOTTOM
- <TD> - Table Cell - Tag Attributes
- WIDTH="?" Cell width (pixels or %)
- HEIGHT="?" Cell height (pixels or %)
- BACKGROUND="url " Background Image
- BGCOLOR="#??????" Background Colour
- TEXT="#??????" Document Text Colour
- ALIGN="?" Horizontal Alignment: LEFT, CENTER, RIGHT
- VALIGN="?" Vertical Alignment: TOP, MIDDLE, BOTTOM
- COLSPAN="?" Number of columns the cell spans across
- ROWSPAN="?" Number of rows a particular cell spans
- NOWRAP No line breaks in that particular cell
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- Frames | Top | Main Guide |
- <FRAMESET> Tag Attributes
- ROWS="??,??,??..." Row Sizes (Number of Rows)
- COLS="??,??,??..." Column Thicknesses
- BORDER="?" Border Thickness (In Pixels)
- FRAMEBORDER="?" Frame Border: 1, 0 (Yes or No)
- FRAMESPACING="?" Spacing Between Frames
- BORDERCOLOR="#??????" Colour Of Border
- <FRAME> - Individual Frame - Tag Attributes
- SRC="url " Location of HTML File for a frame
- NAME="***" Name of frame window
- MARGINWIDTH="?" Horizontal Margin Spacing of Frame (In Pixels)
- MARGINHEIGHT="?" Vertical Margin Thickness of Frame (In Pixels)
- SCROLLING="?" Frame Scrolling: YES, NO, AUTO
- NORESIZE Declare Frame to Be a Fixed Size
- FRAMEBORDER="?" Frame Border: 1, 0 (Yes or No)
- BORDERCOLOR="?" Border Colour
- <NOFRAMES></NOFRAMES> Unframed Content
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- Forms | Top | Main Guide |
- <FORM> Tag Attributes
- ACTION="url " URL of Form Script
- METHOD="***" Method of Form: GET, POST
- ENCTYPE="***" For File Upload: ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data"
- <INPUT> Tag Attributes
- TYPE="***" Input Field Type: TEXT, PASSWORD, CHECKBOX, RADIO, FILE, BUTTON, IMAGE, HIDDEN, SUBMIT, RESET
- NAME="***" Form Field Name
- VALUE="***" Value of Field
- SIZE="?" Field Size
- MAXLENGTH="?" Maximum Input Length of Field
- CHECKED Check Checkbox or Radio Button
- <BUTTON> Tag Attributes
- TYPE="***" Button Type: SUBMIT, RESET, BUTTON
- NAME="***" Button Name
- VALUE="***" Label on Button
- SIZE="?" Button Size
- <SELECT> Tag Attributes
- NAME="***" Drop Down Combo-Box Name
- SIZE="?" No Of Selectable Options
- MULTIPLE Allow Multiple Choice
- <OPTION> Tag Attributes
- SELECTED Default Selected Option
- VALUE="***" Option Value
- <TEXTAREA> Tag Attributes
- ROWS="?" Number of Rows
- COLS="?" Number of Columns (Characters per Row)
- NAME="***" Text Area Name
- WRAP="***" Word Wrapping: OFF, HARD, SOFT
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- Special Characters | Top | Main Guide |
- &#?; Special Character - Replace ? with ISO Code
- < <
- > >
- & &
- " "
- A Space (non-breaking space)
- © © - Copyright Symbol
- ® ® - Registered TM
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- Miscellaneous HTML Tags | Top | Main Guide |
- <!-- *** --> Comment
- <A HREF="mailto:name@server.com?SUBJECT=subject of email">
- <META> Tag Attributes
- NAME="***" META Name: description, keywords, author
- HTTP-EQUIV="***" HTTP Equivalent Information: title, etc.
- CONTENT="***" Contents of Meta Tag
- <LINK> Tag Attributes
- REL="***" Defines Forward Relationship
- REV="***" Defines Reverse Relationship
- HREF="url" Location of object or file being linked
- TYPE="***" Type of Relationship object or file
- TITLE="***" Name of Relationship (Not Neccessary)
- <BLINK></BLINK> Blinking text
- DIR="?" Text Direction Attribute for most tags (LTR, RTL)
- <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC> Prologue (Description of File)
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- JavaScript | Top | Main Guide |
- <SCRIPT> Tag Attributes
- LANGUAGE="***" Script Language (eg. "JavaScript 1.1")
- SRC="url " Script Source
- TYPE="***" Script Type
- <NOSCRIPT></NOSCRIPT> If Scripts are not supported
- SCRIPT Under Construction!!
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- Java Applets | Top | Main Guide |
- <APPLET> Tag Attributes
- PARAM NAME="***" Name of Parameter in Applet
- CODE="***" Applet Code
- CODEBASE="url " Applet Code Source
- NAME="***" Applet Name
- ALT="***" Alternate Text for Applet
- ALIGN="***" Applet Alignment
- WIDTH="?" Applet Window Width in pixels
- HEIGHT="?" Applet Window Height (also in pixels)
- VSPACE="?" Top And Bottom Margin Width
- HSPACE="?" Side Margin Width
- APPLET Under Construction!!
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- Style Sheets | Top | Main Guide |
- <STYLE> Tag Attributes
- TYPE="***" Style Type (eg "text/css")
- LANG="***" Language of Style
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