HTML Glossary

The HTML Glossary covers all tags covered in the HTML made EZ series so far, along with their attributes...

TagDescriptionAttributes
<a>,</a>
Anchorhref - URL of page
name - name of section
target - destination frame
<area>
Imagemap areacoords - dimensions/coordinates
href - URL of link
nohref - no target URL
shape - shape of area
target - destination frame
<b>,</b>
Bold textNone
<body>,</body>
Encloses main documentbackground - background image
bgcolor - background colour
text - text colour
link - link colour
vlink - visited link colour
alink - active link colour
<br>,</br>
Line breakclear - left, right or center
<center>,</center>
Center textNone
<font>,</font>
Give font attributescolor - font colour
size - size of font
face - typeface
<head>,</head>
Encloses header areaNone
<Hn>,</Hn>
Heading. n ranges from 1 -6None
<html>,</html>
Encloses entire HTML documentNone
<i>,</i>
Italic textNone
<img>
Place image in documentsrc - Image URL
alt - alternative text
align - alignment of image on page
width - width of image
height - height of image
border - image border
hspace - amount of white-space
vspace - amount of white-space
usemap - imagemaps
<li>
List elementNone
<map>,</map>
Start and end of imagemap codename - name of imagemap
<ol>,</ol>
Ordered liststart - number to start at
type - type of numeric
<p>,</p>
Paragraph tagalign - text alignment
<table>,</table>
Encloses table align - alignment of table
border - width of border
cellpadding - padding of cell
cellspacing - spaces between cells
cols - specifies no of columns
frame - specify borders to display
width - width of table
<td>,</td>
Table Dataalign - alignment of text
colspan - no of columns to span
rowspan - no of rows to span
nowrap - turn of text-wrapping
<title>,</title>
Encloses page titleNone
<tr>,</tr>
Table Rowalign - alignment of text
<u>,</u>
Underscored textNone
<ul>,</ul>
Unordered listcompact - fit into smaller space
type - type of bullet

The colour chart below contains all the standard colours. More are supported by most browsers and you can create your own in hex ($FFFFFF - White, $000000 Black).

Colour Chart
AquaBlackBlueFuchsia
GrayGreenLimeMaroon
NavyOlivePurpleRed
SilverTealWhiteYellow

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