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HTML Reference

<HTML>

</HTML>

Hypertext Markup Language - use to begin and end an html document.

<HEAD>

</HEAD>

Enclose the head of the document. May include the title and META tags.

<TITLE>

</TITLE>

Goes within the head tags. Will put a title in the top bar.

<BODY>

</BODY>

Encloses the body of the page - what appears on the actual web page.

<H1>

</H1>

A bold heading on the body of the page. Try H2-H6 for smaller sizes.

<P>

</P>

Use to enclose each paragraph of text.

<BR>

A line break. -will skip a line on the page.

<HR>

Horizontal rule - will draw a line on the page.

<UL>

</UL>

Use to enclose an unordered list. Items on the list begin with bullets. For an ordered (numbered) list use OL

<LI>

List item - use to begin each new list item. Use within the UL tag.

<A HREF=" …">

</A>

Use to create a link by typing in the URL. For example, <A HREF=http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/pams/science_house/>Science House homepage</A>

<IMG SRC="…">

Image source - use to insert an image into a document by typing in the location.

<CENTER>

</CENTER>

Center

<B>

</B>

Bold

<I>

</I>

Italic

More HTML Tags

<FONT>

</FONT>

Change the appearance of text within the brackets

<FONT SIZE=+n FACE="font" COLOR="color">

<BLOCKQUOTE>

</BLOCKQUOTE>

Blockquote indents a section of text.

<TABLE>

</TABLE>

Table

<TR>

</TR>

Table row - use to enclose each row of the table

<TH>

</TH>

Table heading - use to enclose the top cells of your table, makes the text bold

<TD>

</TD>

Table data - use to enclose each cell in each row of your table

WIDTH=n

Use in the TABLE, TD, HR, IMG SRC tags to specify width in pixels

HEIGHT=n

Use in the TABLE, TD, HR, IMG SRC tags to specify height in pixels

<A NAME= "anchorname">

</A>

Names an anchor - use these tags to enclose the text or area you wish a user to jump to.

<A HREF = "#anchorname">

</A>

Links to an anchor- use these tags to enclose the text or area you wish a user to jump from.

 

 

 


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