Tag Name | Description | Example | Closing Tag |
---|---|---|---|
/ | This is part of the closing tag. | no | |
! | Places a comment in the document, but will not show up on your page | yes | no |
A | Specifies a link and/or anchor (location to which you can jump either within your HTML page or to another page) | yes | yes |
B | Indicates Boldface to selected text | BOLD text | yes |
Body | Starts and ends the body,or contents, of the documents immediatelly after the head | no example | yes |
BR | Starts a new line of text | no example | no |
Center | Centers a line of text, or an image, between the left and right margins | no example | yes |
DD | States a descripion in a definition list (DL). Must be used within DL tags | yes | no |
DL | Definitions List | yes | yes |
DT | Names a term in a definition list | yes | no |
EM | Puts emphasis on selected text. alternate for Italics | emphasizedtext | yes |
EMBED | Embeds an object into a document, such as a wav, midi, Quick Time, AVI, and other file types | yes | yes |
FONT | The size, typeface, and color of selected text | yes | yes |
H# | Applies one of six heading emphasis to selected text | yes | yes |
HEAD | Introduces and describes an HTML document, within the head is usually the title and meta tags | no | yes |
HR | Inserts a horizontal rule line. Used to seperate sections of a document. | yes | no |
HTML | Defines an HTML document. Placed at the beginning and the end of the document | no | yes |
I | Applies italics to text | Italics text | yes |
IMG SRC | IMG inserts an image in the document, SRC specifies the URL of an image file. | yes | no |
MARQUEE | Scolling text | yes | |
META | Provides a description of the current document, such as keywords, author, description, so that search engines can indentify it correctly. | yes | no |
P | Indicates the start of a new paragraph. | no | no |
SUB | Places a character below the base line which other characters set, also applies smaller font. | H2O | yes |
SUP | Places character above the base line which other characters set, applies a smaller font. | a2+b2=c2 | yes |
TITLE | Specifies the title of your document. | no | yes |
U | Underlines text | example | yes |
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