Some Basic HTML Commands.
Outline of a Web page
<html>
<head>
< title> browser title</title>
</head>
<body>
your page text & media here
</body>
</htmlL>
Formatting in HTML
Headlines manipulates headline properties
<h1 align=center> heading text </h1>
values are h1 (largest) to h6 (smallest)
Font Size to change text size or alignment or color
<font size = # align = left/center/right color = ######> text </font>
where size= a value 1- 7, 1 is smallest, 7 is largest
Paragraph to define a block of text as a paragraph
<p> paragraph text goes here </p>
Center text
<center> text or image to be centered </center>
Blank or new lines
<br>
Lists places a numbered or bulleted list on the page
ordered
<ol>
<li>list elem1
<li>list elem2
</ol>
unordered
<ul>
<li>list elem1
<li>list elem2
</ul>
Definition
<dl>
<dt>def1
<dt>def2
</dl>
Special Characters to place special charaters into text
&#nnn 183 Ex: mid dot =181 mu = 177
Horizontal rule
<hr align=left size=12 width= 75%>
Misc.
Pictures insert GIF, JPG file
<img src=”filename” width= ### height= ###> where ### is the number of pixels to display the picture (usually only specify one)
hypertext links – external, internal & image – outdated links
<a name=”#aname”> anchor text or image </a> sets an anchor point (internal bokmark) to transfer to
<a href=”aname”> link text or image </a> set a link and destination – aname maybe URL, page name or #aname (internal bookmark)
<a href “default.htm#aname> link text or image </a> to transfer to inside an external doc
Set Page background color
<body bgColor = #FF0000> #FF0000 = RED, each 2 Hex digits of the number correspond to the red, green blue values
There are many other tags available. To see more, check out one of the HTML sites in resources.
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