| HTML Tag |
Purpose of HTML Command |
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| <html></html> |
Open and close an html (hypertext markup language) page. |
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| <head></head> |
Open and close the head section, which contains information about each page, including the title, description, meta tags, etc. |
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| <title>Page name goes here</title> |
Open and close the title, which displays at the top of the browser window. |
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| <meta name="description" content="Add your page description here."> |
Some search engines use the description to rank the page and to display when listing the page. |
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| <meta name="keywords" content="keyword, keyword"> |
Some search engines use the keywords to rank the page. |
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| <body></body> |
Open and close the body section, which contains the information displayed in the browser window. |
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| <p></p> |
Open and close a paragraph. |
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| <br> |
Start a new line. |
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| <b></b> |
Start and end bold. |
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| <i></i> |
Start and end italics. |
| <hr> |
Horizontal rule. |
| background="images/background.gif" |
Background image of page located in the images folder. |
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| bgcolor="#ff0000" |
Background color of the page (red) using hexidecimal. |
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| text="#00ff00" |
Text color for the page (green) using hexidecimal. |
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| link="#0000ff" |
Link color for the page (blue) using hexidecimal. |
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| vlink="red" |
Visited link color for the page without hexidecimal. |
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| alink="green" |
Click on a link and it changes to this color. |
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| <img src="images/photo.gif"> |
Display an image located in the images folder. |
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| <img src="images/photo.gif" alt="My Photo" width="50" height="75" border="0" align="right"> |
Display an image with specific attributes. |
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| <a href="mypage.html">My page</a> |
Hyperlink to an html page located in the same folder. |
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| <a href="../mypage.html">My page</a> |
Hyperlink to an html page located in the parent folder. |
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| <a href="http://www.rlwd.biz">My page</a> |
Hyperlink to the home page of www.rlwd.biz. |
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| <a href="mypage.html"><img src="images/photo.gif"></a> |
Hyperlink to an html page located in the same folder using an image. |
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| <font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva" size="2">Hi!</font> |
Designate the font style and size of the text between the html tags. |
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Spacer between text. |
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| © |
Copyright symbol. |
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| • |
Bullet point symbol. |
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