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<html> html document indication <head> document head <title> title (placed within head tags) <meta> instruction to browser (placed within head tags) <body> document body background image in background bgcolor background colour text text colour link colour of links alink colour of link when activated vlink colour of link after visited topmargin margin at top of page <h1> to <h6> headings <!----> comment (doesn't appear on page) <address> contact name
Paragraph
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<p> paragraph <br> line break <hr> horizontal rule width width in percent or pixels size thickness in pixels <pre> preformatted text <blockquote> blockquote <center> centres text and images
Character
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<b> bold <i> italic <tt> teletype <em> emphasis <strong> more emphasis <cite> citation <var> variable <code> code <samp> sample <kbd> keyboard <key> keyword <dfn> definition <strike> strike through <blink>
List
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<li> list item type A for uppercase, a for lowercase, i for Roman numerals <ul> unnumbered list <ol> ordered list <menu> menu list <dir> directory list <dl> description list <dt> data term <dd> data description
Anchor
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<a> anchors link href destination of link name place in linked document target determines which document is loaded into a frame
Image
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<img> imports image src href for image align aligns text to image (top, middle, bottom) alt text alternative border puts border around image height height of image in pixels width width of image in pixels hspace amount of horizontal space around image hspace amount of vertical space around image usemap direction to use imagemap named in map tag ismap direction to use map file
Imagemaps
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<map> specifies "hot spots" for client-side imagemap name names an imagemap <area> specifies area of "hot spots" shape rect or circle coords coordinates of "hot spot"
Font
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<font> customizes font appearance face specifies font type color specifies font color size specifies font size (-6 to +6)
Table
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<table> defines table border border for rows and cols cellpadding thickness of cell wall cellspacing spaces between border and cell contents bgcolor sets background colour of cells <tr> end/start of row <td> defines cell colspan width of column rowspan height of row align alignment in cell nowrap no text wrapping <th> defines table heading colspan width of column rowspan height of row align alignment in cell nowrap no text wrapping <caption> text outside table
Frame
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<frame> defines single frame in frameset name names a frame marginwidth horizontal margin space marginheight verticle margin space noresize can't be resized by user scrolling set to yes, no or auto src displays document in frame <frameset> used in place of body tag rows determines frame width in percent or pixels cols determines frame height in percent or pixels
Form
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<form> defines form action points to script method how data stored <input> type type of input field <textarea> rows height of text area cols width of text area name variable name <select> name variable name size number of items multiple multiple selection <option> selected default selection