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HTML Reference Guide
HTML, or Hyper Text Markup Language, is the language used to create web pages. Below is a reference chart of HTML tags.
Fundamentals
Tag Property Description
<html>
</html>
  Top line of all html document
<head>
</head>
  Houses general browser information for web page
<title>
</title>
  Title of document. Located in header
<body>
</body>
background
bgcolor
bgsound
font
link
alink
vlink
topmargin
leftmargin
marginheight
marginwidth
Applies attributes to entire document
Text Modification
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
Fonts
Tag Property Description
<font>
</font>
color
size
name
Applies style to text
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 Description Example
<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
background
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
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