tag

Tags Reference

HTML tags come in pairs with one or two exceptions.

<html>

This tells the Browser that this is a HyperText Markup Language document.

<head>

Between here and the "closing head tag" we put the page Title (inside the Title Tags), other information for the browser, and information for Search Engine "Bots", in Meta Tags. More on this later. The other browser information (javascripts for example) and Meta Tags are optional. What is here in the "Head section" does NOT show on the page itself.

<title>

This Title is what appears at the top of a browser - on the "Title Bar."

<meta>

(Name="string" and Content="string")

This is used to identify meta-information (information about information) in the document. This element is not meant to take the place of elements which already have a specific purpose.

<body>

This tag delimit the content of an HTML document

Background = "URL" the URL of the graphic that will be tiled as the background of the page
BGColor="color" the color of the background of the page;
Text="color" the color of the document's text.
Link="color" the color of the document's hotspots
VLink="color" the color of the document's visited links
ALink="color" the color of the document's hotspots during user selection

<table>...</table>

This tag delimits the content of a TABLE.

bleedleft: aligned at the left window border
left: at the left text margin
center: centered between text margins
right: at the right text margin
bleedright: aligned at the right window border
justify: table should fill space between text margins
Border this attribute causes browser to render a border around the table; if missing, the table has no grid around it or its data.
Border="n" specifies the thickness of the table border in pixels.
Cellspacing="n" specifies the space around data cells in pixels.
Cellpadding="n" specifies the space data in the cells in pixels.
Width="n" this attribute specifies how wide the table will be; if given as "N%", the width is N% of the width of the display.
Id="string" a document-wide identifier for naming positions in the document as distinations for a hypertext link.
Class = "string" A list of names that may be used by style sheets.
Lang = "string" the natural (human) language used by the content of the table.
Dir="ltr|rtl|" identifies the layout of rows--such as column 1 is on the right (Dir="rtl") or left (Dir="ltr"). Used for languages that have different directionality in reading (not left to right, top to bottom).
Align="left|center|right|justify|char" the horizontal alignment of cell contents; justify is left; char is for aligning on a character.
Char="c" specifies the alignment character for use with Align="char";
Charoff="n" the offset of the alignment character on each line.
Valign="top|middle|bottom|baseline" alignment of cell contents
Cols="n" the number of columns in the table; if present, the browser can render the table as the data is received;
Frame="(void| above| below| hsides| lhs| rhs| vsides| box| border" which sides of the frame to render (void = none).
Rules="(none | groups | rows | cols | all") where to draw the rules in the table interior.

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This tag is used to define a block or paragraph of text; 

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This tag sets up a block of text which will be presented in a fixed-width font, with spaces as significant. 

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brackets text that is an extended quotation from another source.