Click on a particular category of tags to jump directly to it, or browse the full reference list.
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.
| Document | Images | Forms | Basic Text | Imagemaps | META Tags | Lists | Tables | Style Sheets | Links | Frames | Special Characters |
| Structure Tags | |||
| Function | Start Tag | Attributes | End Tag |
| HTML File | none | ||
| File Header | none | ||
| File Title | |||
| Comments | |||
| Body | background=”filename” bgcolor=”color value” text=”color value” link=”color value” vlink=”color value” | ||
| Division | align=”right/left/center” style=”property:value;” class=”classname” | ||
| Span (inline) | style=”property:value;” class=”classname” | ||
| Basic Text Tags | |||
| Function | Start Tag | Attributes | End Tag |
| Line Break | clear=”left/right/all” | or | |
| Paragraph | align=”center/right” | ||
| Bold | none | ||
| Italic | none | ||
| Typewriter Text | none | ||
| Headline | align=”center/right” | ||
| Font | face=”name, name” size=”+/-value/fixed size” color=”color value” Note: the font tag is being phased out in favor of CSS styles. | ||
| Horizontal Rule |
| size=”XX” width=”XX/XX%” noshade |
or |
| Block Quote |
| none | |
| Division | align=”left/center/right” | ||
| List Tags | |||
| Function | Start Tag | Attributes | End Tag |
| Unordered List |
| type=”disc/circle/square” | |
| Ordered List |
| type=”I/A/1/a/i” start=”value to start counting at” | |
| List Item | type=all ul and ol options | ||
| Definiton List |
| none | |
| Definition List Item | none | ||
| Definition List Definition | none | ||
| Link Tags | |||
| Function | Start Tag | Attributes | End Tag |
| Anchor Link | href=”filename” target=”windowname” | ||
| Anchor Mark | name=”markname” | ||
| Image Tags | |||
| Function | Start Tag | Attributes | End Tag |
| Insert Image | src=”filename” align=”left/right” width=”XXX” height=”XXX” alt=”text that desribes image” ISMAP USEMAP=”#mapname” | ||
| Client-side Imagemap Tags | |||
| Function | Start Tag | Attributes | End Tag |
| Define Map | name=”mapname” | ||
| Area Definition | shape=”rect/circle/poly/point” coords=”X,Y,X,Y” href=”imagename” | ||
| Table Tags | ||||
| Function | Start Tag | Attributes | End Tag | |
| Table |
| |||
| Table Row | ||||
| align=”left/center/right” valign=”top/middle/bottom” bgcolor=”color value” | ||||
| Table Data | align=”left/center/right” valign=”top/middle/bottom” width=X nowrap colspan=”X” rowspan=”X” bgcolor=”color value” | |||
| Table Header | align=”left/center/right” valign=”top/middle/bottom” width=X nowrap colspan=”X” rowspan=”X” bgcolor=”color value” | |||
| Caption |
| align=”left/center/right” valign=”top/middle/bottom” | ||
| Frame Tags | |||
| Function | Start Tag | Attributes | End Tag |
| Set Frames | cols=”XX/XX%/*” rows=”XX/XX%/*” | ||
| Frame Definition | src=”filename” name=”framename” noresize scroll=auto/yes/no marginwidth=”XX” marginheight=”XX” | ||
| Base | target=”framename”/ “_self”/ “_top”/ “_parent” (Note the underscores) | ||
| No Frames | |||
| Form Tags | |||
| Function | Start Tag | Attributes | End Tag |
| Form | method=get/put action=”programname” | ||
| Input Field | name=”variablename” type=text/password/ checkbox/radio/submit/ reset/image | ||
| Selection List | name=”variablename” size=XX multiple | ||
| Selection Option | none | ||
| Scrolling Text Field | |||
| Meta Tags | |||
| Function | Start Tag | Attributes | End Tag |
(Server metatags) | http-equiv=”refresh” content=”seconds, filename” | none | |
(Content metatags) | name=”keywords/description/author/ generator/abstract/expiration” content=”your information” | none | |
| Style Sheet Tags | |||
| Function | Start Tag | Attributes | End Tag |
| Style Definition Area | |||
| Link to external CSS File | rel=stylesheet type=”text/css” href=”URL” | none | |
| Commonly-Used Special Characters | ||
| Name | Symbol | HTML Equivalent |
| ampersand | & | & |
| cent sign |
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