Chapter 1-4 Tag Summary
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Chapter
1-4 :-
Tag Summary
In chapters 1-4, we introduced the following tags:
HTML Skeleton
- <HTML> </HTML> - begin and end an HTML document
- <HEAD> </HEAD> - begin and end the "header" for an HTML document
- <TITLE> </TITLE> - HTML document title: goes inside the 'HEAD' tag
- <BODY> </BODY> - encloses the main 'body' of HTML text and images
- <!-- --> - author's comment (not displayed by browser)
Text Tags
- <B> </B> - make bold text (inline)
- <BIG> </BIG> - use a font one size larger than the default font
- <CITE> </CITE> - make italicized text (inline)
- <CODE> </CODE> - use fixed-spaced font (inline)
- <EM> </EM> - make italicized text (inline)
- <FONT SIZE=value> </FONT> - use a font by value of 1 (smallest) thru 7 (largest)
- <FONT SIZE=+value> </FONT> - use a font 'value' sizes larger than the default
- <FONT SIZE=-value> </FONT> - use a font 'value' sizes smaller than the default
- <H1></H1> thru <H6> </H6> - headlines (H1 is largest);w/ double "end-of-line"
- <I> </I> - make italicized text (inline)
- <S> </S> - make 'striked' text (inline)
- <STRIKE> </STRIKE> - make 'striked' text (inline)
- <STRONG> </STRONG> - make bold text (inline)
- <TT> </TT> - use fixed-spaced font (inline)
- <U> </U> - underline text (inline)
- - Non Breaking SPace (explicit space)
Layout Tags
- <BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> - indent a new paragraph
- <BR> - advance to the next line (single "end-of-line" action)
- <CENTER> </CENTER> - center-aligns everything between the open/close tags
- <HR> - draw a horizontal rule (includes double "end-of-line" action)
- <HR WIDTH=value> - draw a horizontal rule, w/ horiz width of 'value' pixels
- <HR WIDTH=value%> - draw a horizontal rule, w/ horiz width of 'value' % of screen
- <HR ALIGN=value> - align a horizontal rule, value of LEFT / RIGHT / CENTER
- <HR SIZE=value> - draw a horizontal rule, w/ vertical height of 'value' pixels
- <HR NOSHADE> - draw a horizontal rule without grey-shading
- <NOBR> </NOBR> - prevent end-of-line breaks
- <P> - begin new paragraph (includes double "end-of-line" action)
- <P ALIGN=value> - aligned paragraph; value of LEFT / RIGHT / CENTER
- <PRE> </PRE> - PRE-formatted text; use fixed-spaced font; whitespace and linebreaks are valid; also causes double end-of-line action
Hypertext Link Related Tags
- <A HREF="http://valid_url/"> link-description </A> - link to remote web site's default homepage
- <A HREF="http://valid_url/filename.htm"> link-description </A> - link to a remote web site's specific web page
- <A HREF="http://valid_url/filename.htm#target-name"> link-description </A> - link to specific target in remote web page
- <A HREF="filename.htm"> link-description </A> - link to web page located in same directory as current page
- <A HREF="filename.htm#target-name"> link-description </A> - link to specific target in local web page
- <A HREF="#target-name"> link-description </A> - link to specific target on current web page
- <A NAME="target-name"> link-description </A> - name this spot in document as a target
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