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Quick Reference

Basic Tags

<html></html> Document Type beginning and end of HTML file

<head></head> Header descriptive info about the document

<style></style> Style indicates internal style sheet for CSS

<title></title> Title appears in the browser title bar

<body></body> Body contains contents of what will be displayed

 Span makes an invisible containter; great for applying CSS to small amounts of text

<div></div> Div makes an invisible container; great for applying CSS to large amounts of text, images, or anything inside the body tags

Format Tags

  Line Break start a new line

 Paragraph starts a new line and skips a line

  Non-breaking Space puts a single blank space

<hr /> Horizontal Rule makes a horizontal line

<center></center> Center centers text, images, etc. on line

 Strong makes text bold

 Emphasis makes text in italics

<? style="text-align: center;"></?> Center inline style CSS for use with many differnet HTML tags for centering text, images, etc. on a line

Fonts and Text Styles

 Font Size changes font size, ranging from 1-7

 Font Face changes text style, use face name

 Font Color changes text color, use color name or color code

 Font Size CSS inline style for changing font size; use px, em, or word values

 Font Face CSS inline style for changing text style; use face name

 Font Color CSS inline style for chaning font color; use color code

Links and Images

<a href="***"></a> makes a link to another page, use URL or filename

<img src="***" / > places an image on the page, use filename

<img src="***" width="? " height="?" / > change dimensions of Image

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="?.css" /> use between head tags when using an external style sheet for CSS

Background

<body bgcolor="?"> Changes color of background, use color code

<body background ="***"> Uses image for background, use filename

<body style="background-color: ?;"></body> inline style CSS for changing color of background, use color code

Index

This resource originally created by Deborah Dunk.
Revised and edited by Michael Galloway in 2005 & in 2006.

Updated on 28 Nov 2006

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