HTML Glossary of Tags and Attributes Covered

<HTML>Tells the browser that this webpage is written in HTML. Tags surround entire HTML document
<head>Header tags are the second element in any HTML document. Header tags hold the basic information about a page including: title, style tags, and meta tags.
<title>The title tags hold the text that will be displayed in the title bar of the browser.
<body>Holds all of the page content.
<h1>,<h2>,<h3>,etc.The headline tag is used to create section headers. Headline tags always appear on their own line.
<p>The paragraph tag creates indents a paragraph of text. Does not require a closing tag.
Special Characters
&nbsp; Non-breaking space, indents text by one
space for each of these included.
&amp; Ampersand, displays the shorthand and symbol  & 
&lt; Less Than Symbol, <
&gt; Greater Than Symbol, >
&quot;The Quote Symbol, "
font color="red"Changes the color of the text that is bracketed by its tags to red, or whichever color you choose
divUsed to apply attributes to sections of code without regular tags.
iItalicizes enclosed text.
bBolds enclosed text
brLine Break
bgcolorAn attribute that, when added to some HTML tags will change the background color of the text within the tag to that color. When used with the BODY tag it changes the background color of the entire page.
emA depreciated form of the bold tag, the effect is essentially the same as the bold tag.
strongA depreciated form of the bold tag, the effect is essentially the same as the bold tag.
citationUsed to cite references in an HTML page
font face="name of font"Sets the font for the enclosed text.
basefontSets the font for the entire page.
font size="n"Changes the font size. You can choose a number between 1 to 7. You can also use a + or - number between 1 and 7, or between 0 and 1 (not including zero) to increase/decrease the current font size.
bigMakes text larger
smallMakes text smaller
subChanges text to subscript
supChanges text to superscript
prePlaces the text on the screen with the same spacing, etc as you have used in your code.
strikeStrikes out text
uUnderlines text
AnchorsUsed for intrapage linking.
<a href=#name>Link</a>
<a name>Link Destination</a>
External LinksCreate clickable hypertext links
<a href="http://www.yourpage.html">Link to Your Page</>
Ordered ListsCreate numbered lists
<ol type="A"><li>Item 1</li></ol>
Available types include: (I, A, 1, a, i)
Unordered ListsCreate bulleted lists
<ul><li>First</li></ul>
Available types include: (disc, circle, square)
Tablesorganizes information into tabular format
<table>
thtable header
trtable row
tdtable data
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