Basic HTML Tags
<html></html>
Goes around your entire HTML document.
<head></head>
Contained inside html tags, is where you set the title and other attributes of your HTML document before the body tag is read.
<body></body>
Contained inside html tags, before the head tag, and is where the content of your web-page goes(sound, pictures, links, etc.)

Head Tags
<title>Title of my page</title>
Sets the title of your page(the blue bar). Can not contain other HTML tags.
<meta name="keywords" content="?,?,?...">
Tells "crawlers" what keywords to associate with your web-page. Seperate words with commas. (e.g. "Speed-cubing, Speedcubing, Rubik's Cube, Rubiks Cube")

Body Attributes
<body bgcolor="?"></body>
Tells the browser what color to set the background of the page to, contains either a hex value or a name.
<body background="?"></body>
Tells the browser what picture to set the background to, contains a file name. The only formats that it will read are .gif and .jpg images
<body text="?"></body>
Tells the browser what color to set the text of a page to, contains either a hex value or a name.
<body link="?"></body>
Tells the browser what color to set the links of a page to, contains either a hex value or a name.
<body alink="?"></body>
Tells the browser what color to set the link being clicked to, contains either a hex value or a name.
<body vlink="?"></body>
Tells the browser what color to set the old links(visited) of a page to, contains either a hex value or a name.

Text Modifiers
<b></b>
Makes text bold.
<u></u>
Makes text underlined.
<i></i>
Makes text italic.
<tt></tt>
Sets the text to look like a type writer(e.g. Type Writer)
<font size="?"></font>
Sets the size of text(1-7)
<font color="?"></font>
Sets the color of text(hex value or name)
<font face="?"></font>
Sets the font of text(e.g. courier)

Formatting
<br />
Creates a line break(similar to endl in C++)
<blockquote></blockquote>
Makes a new line and indents the text on both sides.
<ul></ul>
Stands for undefined list, contains li tags
<li></li>
Makes a listed item in an undefined list.
  • Listed Item
  • Listed Item
<hr />
Inserts a "Horizontal Rule".
(e.g.:
)
<hr width="?" />
Sets the width of a horizontal rule. Can either be set to a percent(e.g. 90%) or a number

Links
<a name="?"></a>
Sets a point in your HTML document to refer to from another point in the HTML document.
<a href="?"></a>
Changes the URL of the HTML document to a different page, or point in your HTML document (if inside the same document put a pound sign(#) before the name)




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