HTML
HTML is a markup language
for describing web document or web pages. HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup
Language. A markup language is a set of markup tags. HTML documents are
described by HTML tags. Each HTML tag describes different document content.
Below are basic HTML tags
used to format the appearance of the text on your web page:
Basic Tags
<html></html>
Creates a HTML document
<head></head>
Sets off the title and other
information that is not displayed on the webpage itself
<title></title>
Adds a title
<body></body>
Sets off the visible portion
of the document
Body Attributes
<body bgcolor=”pink”>
or <body bgcolor=”#000000>
Sets the background colour,
using name or hex value
<body text=”black”>
Sets the text colour, using
name or hex value
<body link=”blue”>
Sets the colour of links,
using name or hex value
Text Tags
<b></b>
Creates bold text
<i></i>
Creates a citation, usually
italic
<font size=”10”></font>
Sets size of font
<font color=”green”></font>
Sets font colour, using name
or hex value
<h1></h1>
Creates the largest headline
<h6></h6>
Creates the smallest
headline
Links
<a href=”URL”></a>
Creates a hyperlink
<a href=mailto:EMAIL></a>
Creates a mail to link
<a href=”URL”><img
src=”URL”></a>
Creates an image or link
Formatting
<p></p>
Creates a new paragraph
<br></br>
Inserts a line break
<ul></ul>
Create a bulleted list
<li></li>
Precedes each list item and
adds a number or symbol depending upon the type of list selected
<ol></ol>
Creates a numbered list
Tables
<table></table>
Creates a table
<tr></tr>
Sets off each row in a table
<td></td>
Sets off each cell in a row
