Picture of Monitor

HTML Quick Reference

By Floyd Winters and Alison VanderMolen

Page 1

HTML is the language that web pages are written in. HTML commands are called Tags.
If you turn a tag on, you usually turn it off later. Example: Use <b> to start bold and </b> to stop it.
REQUIRED TAGS DEFINITION
<html> Tells the browser that the file contains HTML code.
<head> The header of an HTML document; contains the document title.
<title>HTML Quick Demo</title> Describes the content to be used by search engines to index the page.
<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.
<p> Begin a new paragraph; more vertical space than a <br>.
<br> Places a line break (carriage return) into the document. No closing tag.
<b>text</b> Formats the text between the tags as bold type.
<i>text</i> Formats the text between the tags as italicized type.
<hr size = 3 width = 95%> Places a horizontal line (height size 3) in the document. No closing tag.

Go to Page 2