HTML TAG SHEET
Basic Tags Formatting Tags continued
Tag Description Tag Description
Defines the body of the web Inserted before each list
<body></body>
page item, and adds a number
<li></li>
<body bgcolor="pink"> Sets the background colour of or symbol depending upon
the web page the type of list selected
<body text="black"> Sets the colour of the body text <img src="name"/> Adds an image
Contains information about the Aligns an image: can also
<head></head> <img src="name" be "right", "center";
document
align="left"/> "bottom", "top", "middle"
Creates an HTML document –
<html></html> starts and ends a web page <img src="name" Sets size of border around
border="1"/> an image
<title></title> Defines a title for the document
<img src="name"
Sets the height and width of
<!-- --> Comment width="200" height
an image
Text Tags ="200"/>
Tag Description Displays alternative text
<img src="name" when the mouse hovers
<hl></hl> Creates the largest heading alt="alternative text"/> over the image or when the
image is not found
<h6></h6> Creates the smallest heading
<hr/> Inserts a horizontal line
<b></b> Creates bold text <hr size="3"/> Sets size (height) of line
Sets width of line, in
<i></i> Creates italic text <hr width="80%"/> percentage or absolute
value
<font size="3"></font> Sets size of font, from "1" to "7" <hr color="ff0000"/> Sets the colour of the line
<font color="green"></ Table Tags
font> Sets font colour
Tag Description
<font face="Times New <table></table> Creates a table
Sets font type
Roman"></font> <tr></tr> Creates a row in a table
Links Tags <td></td> Creates a cell in a table
Tag Description Creates a table header (a
<a href="URL"></a> Creates a hyperlink <th></th> cell with bold, centred text)
<a href="URL"><img
src="URL"></a> Creates an image link <table width="50"> Sets the width of the table
Sets the width of the
<a name="NAME"></a> Creates a target location <table border="1"> border around the table
cells
Links to a target location Sets the space between
<a href="#NAME"></a> created somewhere else in the <table cellspacing="1">
the table cells
document
Sets the space between a
Formatting Tags <table cellpadding="1">
cell border and its contents
Tag Description Sets the alignment for
<p></p> Creates a new paragraph <tr align="left"> cell(s) (can also be
"center" or "right")
Aligns a paragraph to the "left"
Sets the vertical alignment
<p align="left"> (default), can also be "right", or
<tr valign="top"> for cell(s) (can also be
"center"
"middle" or "bottom")
<br/> Inserts a line break
Sets the number of
<ol></ol> Creates a numbered list <td colspan="2">
columns a cell should span
<ol type="A","a", Defines the type of numbering Sets the number of rows a
"I","i","1"></ol> used <td rowspan="4">
cell should span
<ul></ul> Creates a bulleted list
<ul type="disc",
"square","circle"> </ul> Defines the type of bullets used
