| Tag | Attribute | Value | What it's used for |
| !DOCTYPE |
Indicates the version and type of HTML used; includes a URL reference to a DTD |
| html,/html |
Indicates the start and end of an HTMl document |
| title, /title |
Indicates the start and end of a title. the title does not appear in the body of the webpage, but appears on the title bar of the web browser |
| head,/head |
Indcates the start and end of a section document used for the title and other document header information |
| body,/body |
Indicates the start and end of the webpage body |
| p,/p |
Indicates the start of a new paragraph; Inserts a blank line above the new paragraph |
| br / |
Inserts a line break at the point where the tag appears |
| hr / |
Inserts a horizontal rule |
| ul,/ul |
Indicates the start and end of an unordered (bulleted) list |
| li,/li |
Indicates that the item that follows the tag is an item within a list |
| ol,/ol |
Indicates an ordered or numbered list |
| dl,/dl |
Used to start and end a definition list
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| dt |
Used to identify a term
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| dd |
Used to identify the definition of the term directly above
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| align |
Controls alignment , Can be set to bottom, middle, top, left or right
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| alt |
Alternative text to display when an image is being loaded
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| border |
Defines the border width
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| height |
Defines the height of an image
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| hspace |
Defines the horizontal space that separates the image from the text
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| src |
Defines the URL of the image to be loaded
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| vspace |
Defines the vertical space that separates the image from the text
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| width |
Defines the width of an image, Improves loading time
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| link |
Normal link, Controls the color of a normal unvisited link and/or link without a mouse pointer pointing to it, Default color is usually blue
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| vlink |
Visited link, Controls the color of a link that has been clicked or visited
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| alink |
Active link, Controls the color of a link immediately after the mouse clicks the hyperlink, Dedault color is usually green or red.
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| color="#xxxxxx" |
Changes the color, value inside a quotation marks is a six digit color code or color name
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| face="fontname" |
Changes the font face or type, Value inside quotation marks is the name of a font, such as verdana or arial; text appears using the default font if the font face is not specified
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| size="x" |
Changes the font size, Value inside quotation marks is a number that represents size, values can be an actual font size of 1(smallest)to 7(largest) or a relative font size, such as+2 or -1, which specifies a number of sizes larger or smaller that the preset font size
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| href |
Specifies the URL of the linked page or file
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| b,/b |
physical style tag that displays text as bold
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| big,/big |
Increases the font size in comparison to the surrounding text
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| em,/em |
Logicalstyle tag that displays text with emphasis (usually appears as italicized)
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| u,/u |
Displays text as underlined
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| strong,/strong |
Logical style tag that displays text with strong emphasis(usually appears bold)
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| table,/table |
Indicates the start and end of a table, all other table tags are inserted within these tags
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| tr,/tr |
Indicates the start and end of a table row, Rows consist of heading or data cells
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| th,/th |
Indicates the start and end of a table heading(also called a heading cell), Tabe headings default to bold text and center and center- alignment
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| td,/td |
Indicates the start and end of a data cell in a table, Data cells default to normal text and left- alignment
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