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HTML Quick Reference

By Floyd Winters

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View the source code for this file to see how each of HTML command or Tag is used to create this demo.
If you turn a Tag on, you usually must turn it off later. Example: Use <b> to start bold and </b> to stop it.
REQUIRED TAGS DEFINITION
<html> . . . </html> Tell the browser that the file contains HTML (HyperText Markup Language) code.
<head> . . . </head> The header contains the document Title used by search engines to index the page.
<title>HTML Quick Demo</title> Describe the content. Displays in Titlebar, Taskbar, Favorites or Bookmarks.
<body> . . . </body> The main body of an HTML document; contains the page content.
OPTIONAL TAGS DEFINITION
<h1>HTML Quick Reference</h1> Heading size 1. There are six heading levels: 1 through 6. 1 is the largest.
<br> Place a line break (carriage return) into the document. No closing tag.
<p> Begin a new paragraph; more vertical space than a <br>.
<b>text</b> or <strong> Format the text between the tags as bold type.
<i>text</i> or <em> Format the text between the tags as italicized type.
<hr size="3" width="95%"> Place a horizontal rule line (height size 3) in the document. No closing tag.

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