Structure Tags

Common Elements Lists Unclosed Depreciated Executables Attibutes

<a> </a> Anchor tag, marks text as the start and/or destination of a link; requires the HREF or NAME attribute

<href> hyperlink reference. Example:<a href=" www.site.com ">text link </a>
<name> links in a document <a>. Example: <a href=#gohere>text link</a> <a name=gohere>.

<abbr><abbr>

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<acronym></acronym>

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<bdo> bi-directional override, expressly stops default direction for redirection.

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<body></body> Divides the "meat" of the doc from the head.

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<br /> (space /) Line Break. With HTML you don't need the space / but it's needed for XHTML.

<del> shows text as stike through, to be deleted. Used with <ins>.

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<cite></cite>

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<code></cite>

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<dfn></dfn>

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<div></div> division, splits sections of a document.

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 used to make comments that only appear in the source code, invisible in browser.

<em></em>

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<h1></h1> Heading Text (1-6), 1= largest, 4=normal, 6=smallest size.

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<head></head> Put doc discriptions like title here.

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<hr /> Horizontal Rule. HR attributes:

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<html> </html> Identifies the doc as HTML, needed at begining and end of every HTML doc.

dir - direction of text
lang - language of text
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<img src="filename"> Insert Image.

<ins> Inserted text, used with <del> to show text to be added.

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<kbd><kbd>

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<nobr>/nobr> no break, often used with <wbr> and has no atributes.

<p></p> paragraph start & end.

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<pre> </pre> preformatted text, appears exactly as source.

<kbd><kbd>

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<samp></samp>

<kbd><kbd>

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<strong></strong>

<kbd><kbd>

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<title> </title> Title of the doc, appears in the browser's titlebar.

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lang - language of text

<var></var>

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<wbr /> when used with <nobr> advises potential line break if needed.No attributes.

Common Elements

Every HTML document needs (at least common to all HTML documents) the following:
<html> starts the document
<head> divides the doc description from the actual doc
<title>Title of doc, appears in browser window bar</title></head>
<body>
The text of the document.
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The order of tags and /endtags should be "nested", notice how html starts and /html ends the document.

Lists

<dl></dl> Definition List.

<dt></dt> Definition Title used only in a definition list as a decription.

<dd></dd> Definition Description used only in a definition list which indents text.

title <ol></ol> Ordered (numbered) list.

class - see Cascading Style Sheets.
compact = (depreciated) squeeze text into smaller space.
dir = direction of text.
id = uniquely identify the list for hyperlink.
lang = define the language used.
start = change the begining value instead of 1.
style - see Cascading Style Sheets
title = label the list. Unlike id, the label does not have to be unique.
type = A, cap letters; a, lowercase; I, roman numeral; i, roman lowercase; 1, number; list formats.

<ul></ul> Unordered (bulleted) list.