HTML appendix

HTML appendix - This list can be printed for quick reference.

This list includes the most commonly used html terms with a description of what they are and do.

Remember that all html elements are contained in '<' '>' tags. If a line of code has more than one opening element (eg. center, h1, underline) and these need closing tags, then the closing tags are in reverse order to the opening order (eg. /underline, /h1, /center). The beauty of this is that an element required for a paragraph can be opened first and then closed at the end of the paragraph, whilst other tags can be closed inside the paragraph. The best example of this is the body element which is opened after the head statements and closed as the last element on the page before html itself is closed.

Element	Description	Close / tag required
body	Defines content area	/body
center (see note), left, right	Object placement control	/center (see note), No, No
a href="address"	hyperlink off page	/a
b, h1 - h6, small, strong	text (font) descriptors	/b, /h?, /small, /strong
img src="address for img"	image insertion from "address"	No
li; ol, ul	list item; ordered, unordered list	/li; /ol, /ul
p, br (in image placement)	new paragraph, location break	/p, /br (in image placement)
u	Underline	/u
font xxx="yyy"	Definitions: style, colour etc="yyy"	/font

Not a very large list, but it includes the most commonly used terms in html.

Note: The use of "center" has been deprecated from html 4 onwards, though it will work in browsers. The correct placement command is now <div align="center"> and the closing tag is </div>.

For a comprehensive list visit The www consortium - the standards body for web languages or HTML Goodies - an enormous education resource for all coding languages.

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Created on November 9, 2002