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HTML Cheat Sheat-1

This document provides a summary of basic HTML tags and their uses. It outlines tags for formatting text, inserting links, creating tables, embedding images, and building forms. The cheat sheet covers common tags for text styling, lists, headings, paragraphs, and more. It also includes attributes for customizing tables, frames, and form elements.

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HTML Cheat Sheat-1

This document provides a summary of basic HTML tags and their uses. It outlines tags for formatting text, inserting links, creating tables, embedding images, and building forms. The cheat sheet covers common tags for text styling, lists, headings, paragraphs, and more. It also includes attributes for customizing tables, frames, and form elements.

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HTML Cheatsheet

Contents
1. Basic Tags 2. Body Attributes 3. Text Tags 4. Links 5. Formatting 6. Tables 7. Table Attributes 8. Frames 9. Frames Attributes 10. Forms

Basic Tags
<html></html> <head></head> <body></body>

Creates an HTML document Sets off the title and other information that isnt displayed on the web page itself Sets off the visible portion of the document

Body Attributes
<body bgcolor="pink"> <body text="black"> <body link="blue">

Sets the background color, using name or hex value

Sets the text color, using name or hex value

Sets the color of links, using name or hex value Sets the color of followed links, using name or hex value Sets the color of links on click Disallows text

<body vlink="#ff0000"> <body alink="#00ff00">

<body ondragstart="return false" onselectstart="return false">

selection with the mouse and keyboard

Text Tags

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<pre></pre> <hl></hl> <h6></h6> <b></b> <i></i>

Creates preformatted text

Creates the largest headline Creates the smallest headline

Creates bold text Creates italic text Creates teletype, or typewriter-style text Creates a citation, usually italic

<tt></tt>

<cite></cite> <em></em>

Emphasizes a word (with italic or bold) Emphasizes a word (with italic or bold) Sets size of font, from 1 to 7 Sets font color, using name or hex value

<strong></strong>

<font size="3"></font>

<font color="green"></font>

Links
<a href="URL"></a>

Creates a hyperlink Creates a mailto link </a> Creates an image/link

<a href="mailto:EMAIL"></a>

<a href="URL"><img src="URL"> <a name="NAME"></a>

Creates a target location within a document Links to that target location from elsewhere in the document

<a href="#NAME"></a>

Formatting
<p></p>

Creates a new paragraph Aligns a paragraph to the left (default), right, or center.

<p align="left"> <br>

Inserts a line break Indents text from both sides

<blockquote></blockquote>

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<dl></dl> <dt> <dd>

Creates a definition list

Precedes each definition term Precedes each definition Creates a numbered list Creates a bulleted list Precedes each list item, and adds a number or symbol depending upon the type of list

<ol></ol> <ul></ul> <li></li>

selected
<div align="left">

A generic tag used to format large blocks of HTML, also used for

stylesheets
<img src="name">

Adds an image Aligns an image: left, right, center; bottom, top, middle

<img src="name" align="left"> <img src="name" border="1"> <hr />

Sets size of border around an image

Inserts a horizontal rule Sets size (height) of rule Sets width of rule, in percentage or absolute value

<hr size="3" />

<hr width="80%" /> <hr noshade />

Creates a rule without a shadow

Tables
<table></table> <tr></tr> <td></td> <th></th>

Creates a table

Sets off each row in a table Sets off each cell in a row Sets off the table header (a normal cell with bold, centered text)

Table Attributes

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<table border="1">

Sets width of border around table cells Sets amount of space between table cells Sets amount of space between a cells border and its contents Sets width of table, in pixels or as a percentage of document

<table cellspacing="1"> <table cellpadding="1">

<table width="500" or "80%">

width
<tr align="left"> or <td align="left"> <tr valign="top"> or <td valign="top">

Sets alignment for cell(s) (left, center, or right) Sets vertical alignment for cell(s) (top, middle,

or bottom)
<td colspan="2"> <td rowspan="4"> <td nowrap>

Sets number of columns a cell should span (default=1) Sets number of rows a cell should span (default=1)

Prevents the lines within a cell from being broken to fit

Frames
<frameset></frameset>

Replaces the <body> tag in a frames document; can also be nested in

other framesets
<frameset rows="value,value">

Defines the rows within a frameset, using number in pixels,

or percentage of width
<frameset cols="value,value">

Defines the columns within a frameset, using number in

pixels, or percentage of width


<frame>

Defines a single frame or region within a frameset Defines what will appear on browsers that dont support frames

<noframes></noframes>

Frames Attributes
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<frame src="URL">

Specifies which HTML document should be displayed Names the frame, or region, so it may be targeted by other frames Defines the left and right margins for the frame; must be equal

<frame name="name">

<frame marginwidth="value">

to or greater than 1
<frame marginheight="value">

Defines the top and bottom margins for the frame; must be

equal to or greater than 1 Sets whether the frame has a scrollbar; value may equal yes, no, or auto. The default, as in ordinary documents, is auto.
<frame scrolling="value"> <frame noresize="noresize">

Prevents the user from resizing a frame

Forms For functional forms, youll have to run a script. The HTML just creates the appearance of a form.
<form></form>

Creates all forms Creates a scrolling menu. Size sets the

<select multiple name="NAME" size=?></select>

number of menu items visible before you need to scroll.


<option>

Sets off each menu item Creates a pulldown menu

<select name="NAME"></select> <option>

Sets off each menu item Creates a text box area.

<textarea name="NAME" cols=40 rows=8></textarea name>

Columns set the width; rows set the height.


<input type="checkbox" name="NAME">

Creates a checkbox. Text follows tag. Creates a radio button. Text follows tag

<input type="radio" name="NAME" value="x"> <input type="text" name="NAME" size=20>

Creates a one-line text area. Size sets length, in

characters.
<input type="submit" value="NAME">

Creates a Submit button Creates an actual button that is clicked


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<button type="submit">Submit</button>

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<input type="image" border=0 name="NAME" src="name.gif">

Creates a Submit button

using an image
<input type="reset">

Creates a Reset button

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