HTML Tags


Hyper Text Markup Language standards are created by the World Wide Web Consortium who's site contains a complete list.

I. Text

  1. Common
  2. Special Characters
  3. Cascading Style Sheets
  4. Color names and Hex numbers

II. Structure

  1. Common
  2. Lists
  3. Unclosed
  4. Depreciated
  5. Executables

III. Tables

IV.Frames

V.Forms

VI. Web related tools and technologies

  1. HTML Tidy is a W3C created tool for checking HTML. Tidy Download and Info
    CLI useage: tidy -f error.txt -m filename.html
    a) -f = put errors into errors.txt
    b) -m = update the original file, instead of creating a new updated file.
    c) tidy -help|more = the documentation
  2. HTML documents are supposed to start with a Document Type Definition:
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//w3c//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
    The documents will get read by a browser the same without this tag. I don't really understand it's usefulness.
    To find out more about the DTD check W3C's DTD page .
    HTML Tidy is also able to determine what DTD you are coding in somehow.

  3. XHTML
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