Below is a list of tags and their meanings and usage. Refer to this when you need help on your HTML projects.

!...

Use to make a comment in an HTML document. It won't show up on the screen.

/A

Ends an anchor. Use it after the text or graphics you want to have be a link.

A HREF

Use to make an anchor. I should look like a href="tory.html (remember to include the brackets on either side.)

ADDRESS

Use to change font to "address" format.

ALIGN

Use with "left" or "center" to line text up.

BODY

Use to tell browsers that all the of the following text, graphics, etc. will be in the BODY of the table. In other words, the main stuff you see.

BR

Puts in a line break (blank line). Use one to have the text go down to the next line. Use two to have a blank line between paragraphs.

CENTER

Centers text.

FONT

Sets a specific font. You have to be careful with this one because it will only work with a few fonts: Arial, times, roman, and helvetica.

H1

This is the largest headline size. It makes large, bold text

like this

Note: It also puts in a break before and after the text.

H2, H3, H4, and H5

Headlines that are smaller than the H1 headline. All are bold and set the text on it's own line. They look like this.

This is H2

This is H3

This is H4

This is H5...it's pretty small. It especially looks small in Netscape so you need to make sure to use it sparingly.

HEAD

Use to denote things that belong in the header of the HTML document. Between HEAD and /HEAD put things like comments and titles.

HR

Inserts a line on the page.

HTML

Put at the top, very first thing on the page, of all HTML documents. It tells the browser, Hey! This is an HTML Document! Do your stuff!

LI

List item. Use in a list with the UL and OL tags. It puts each item on a separate line with a bullet or number in front of it. To see a great example, check the source out of this page.

IMG SRC="name of graphic here"

Use to insert a graphic file. Graphics must be GIFs of JPEGs.

LEFT

Aligns text to the left.

OL

Ordered list...for making lists.

P

Paragraph...formats text small, readable and in a paragraph format.

RIGHT

Aligns text to the right

STRONG

Formats text in a strong, bold fashion like this

TABLE

Indicates the start of a table.

TD

Table Data...one cell of a table.

TH

Table Heading...makes a bold headline for a table

TITLE

Whatever text you type between TITLE and /TITLE will show in the title bar of the page.

TR

Table Row...starts a new row on a table.

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Refer to this often!