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Essential
HTML Tags
 his
is a listing of the tags that must be listed inside an html document.
The tags are listed in blue. The attributes (if any) that go inside the
tags are listed below. If you aren't familiar with HTML, you might want
to read the introductory article on HTML first.
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Tags |
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Descriptions |
| <HTML></HTML> |
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Makes
the file an HTML document |
| <HEAD></HEAD> |
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Contains
the page title and other information not displayed on the page itself.
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| <META>
Attributes:
NAME="description statement or
keywords"
CONTENT="brief description
or comma-seperated list of keywords"
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Lets
you insert keywords and a brief description of the page's content.
<META> tags must contain both attributes.
Example: <META NAME="Essential HTML Tags page" CONTENT="tags,
html, essential, basic, web, page, my, design, primer,"> |
| <TITLE></TITLE> |
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Contains
the information to be displayed in the title bar at the top of the
browser window.
Example:<TITLE>My Design Primer | Web Pages | Essential HTML
Tags</TITLE> |
| <BODY></BODY>
Attributes: BACKGROUND="filename"
Inserts a background image (named filename) behind the contents
of the page.
BGCOLOR="hexadecimal color"
Determines the background color of this page.
TEXT="hexadecimal color"
Determines the text color.
LINK="hexadecimal color"
Determines the color of unvisited links.
ALINK="hexadecimal color"
Determines the color of active links (links being clicked).
VLINK="hexadecimal color"
Determines the color of visited links. |
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Contains
everything on the page.
Example: <BODY BACKGROUND="background.gif" BGCOLOR="#000000"
TEXT="#FFFFFF" LINK="#3366FF" ALINK="#666666"
VLINK"#3333CC"> |
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