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HTML Tag Quick Reference Guide
These tables summarize basic HTML tags.
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Note: In older versions of HTML, some tags did not require ending tags. With the emergence of XML and XHTML, you should be sure to include both beginning and ending tags.
Structure Tags
Function Start Tag Attributes End Tag
HTML File
<html>
none
</html>
File Header
<head>
none
</head>
File Title
<title>
none
</title>
Comments
<!--
Your comments go between the start and end tags. Put a space between the -- and your comments.
-->
Body
<body>
background="filename"
</body>
Division
<div>
align="right/left/center"
</div>
Span (inline)
<span>
style="property:value;"
</span>
Basic Text Tags
Function Start Tag Attributes End Tag
Line Break
<br>
clear="left/right/all"
</br> or <br />
Paragraph
<p>
align="center/right"
</p>
Bold
<b>
none
</b>
Italic
<i>
none
</i>
Typewriter Text
<tt>
none
</tt>
Headline
<h1-6>
align="center/right"
</h1-6>
Font
<font>
face="name, name"Note: the font tag is being phased out in favor of CSS styles.
</font>
Horizontal Rule
<hr>
size="XX"
</hr> or <hr />
Block Quote
<blockquote>
none
</blockquote>
Division
<div>
align="left/center/right"
</div>
List Tags
Function Start Tag Attributes End Tag
Unordered List
<ul>
type="disc/circle/square"
</ul>
Ordered List
<ol>
type="I/A/1/a/i"
</ol>
List Item
<li>
type=all ul and ol options
</li>
Definiton List
<dl>
none
</dl>
Definition List Item
<dt>
none
</dt>
Definition List Definition
<dd>
none
</dd>
Link Tags
Function Start Tag Attributes End Tag
Anchor Link
<a>
href="filename"
</a>
Anchor Mark
<a>
name="markname"
</a>
Image Tags
Function Start Tag Attributes End Tag
Insert Image
<img>
src="filename"
</img>
Client-side Imagemap Tags
Function Start Tag Attributes End Tag
Define Map
<map>
name="mapname"
</map>
Area Definition
<area>
shape="rect/circle/poly/point"
</area>
Table Tags
Function Start Tag Attributes End Tag
Table
<table>
border="X"
</table>
Table Row
<tr>
align="left/center/right"
</tr>
Table Data
<td>
align="left/center/right"
</td>
Table Header
<th>
align="left/center/right"
</th>
Caption
<caption>
align="left/center/right"
</caption>
Frame Tags
Function Start Tag Attributes End Tag
Set Frames
<frameset>
cols="XX/XX%/*"
</frameset>
Frame Definition
<frame>
src="filename"
</frame>
Base
<base>
target="framename"/
</base>
No Frames
<noframes>
Between start and end tags, place the content that appears when a non-frames browser loads this page.
</noframes>
Form Tags
Function Start Tag Attributes End Tag
Form
<form>
method=get/put
</form>
Input Field
<input>
name="variablename"
</input>
Selection List
<select>
name="variablename"
</select>
Selection Option
<option>
none
</option>
Scrolling Text Field
<textarea>
name="variablename"rows=XXcols=XX
</textarea>
Meta Tags
Function Start Tag Attributes End Tag
<meta>
http-equiv="refresh"
none
</meta>
<meta>
name="keywords/description/author/
none
</meta>
Style Sheet Tags
Function Start Tag Attributes End Tag
Style Definition Area
<style>
type="text/css">
</style>
Link to external CSS File
<link>
rel=stylesheet
none
Commonly-Used Special Characters
Name Symbol HTML Equivalent
ampersand
&
&
cent sign
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