HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE TAGS - #1
Tags Description
<html>…</html> ✓ represents the root of an HTML document.
✓ defines the document's body.
✓ The <body> element contains all the contents of an HTML document, such as
headings, paragraphs, images, hyperlinks, tables, lists, etc.
✓ Attributes:
<body>…</body> • background: Specifies the URL of an image to be used as the background.
• bgcolor: Sets the background color of the document.
• text: Defines the default text color for the document.
• link: Specifies the color of unvisited links.
• alink: Specifies the color of active links (when clicked).
• vlink: Specifies the color of visited links.
✓ defines a paragraph.
<p>…</p> ✓ Browsers automatically add a single blank line before and after
each <p> element.
<h1>…</h1>
<h2>…</h2> ✓ The <header> element represents a container for introductory content or a set
<h3>…</h3> of navigational links.
<h4>…</h4>
<h5>…</h5>
<h6>…</h6>
<b>…</b> ✓ The <b> tag specifies bold text without any extra importance.
<em>…</em> ✓ The <em> tag is used to define emphasized text. The content inside is typically
displayed in italic.
<i>…</i> ✓ The <i> tag defines a part of text in an alternate voice or mood. The content
inside is typically displayed in italic.
<small>…</small> ✓ The <small> tag defines smaller text (like copyright and other side-comments).
<strong>…</strong> ✓ The <strong> tag is used to define text with strong importance. The content
inside is typically displayed in bold.
✓ The <sub> tag defines subscript text.
<sub>…</sub> ✓ Subscript text appears half a character below the normal line, and is
sometimes rendered in a smaller font.
✓ Subscript text can be used for chemical formulas, like H2O.
<sup>…</sup> ✓ The <sup> tag defines superscript text.
✓ Superscript text appears half a character above the normal line, and is
sometimes rendered in a smaller font.
✓ Superscript text can be used for footnotes, like WWW[1].
<ins>…</ins> ✓ The <ins> tag defines a text that has been inserted into a document.
✓ Browsers will usually underline inserted text.
<del>…</del> ✓ The <del> tag defines text that has been deleted from a document.
✓ Browsers will usually strike a line through deleted text.
✓ The <img> tag is used to embed an image in an HTML page.
✓ Images are not technically inserted into a web page; images are linked to web
pages. The <img> tag creates a holding space for the referenced image.
✓ The <img> tag has two required attributes:
o src - Specifies the path to the image
o alt - Specifies an alternate text for the image, if the image for some
reason cannot be displayed.
<img>…</img> ✓ Attributes:
Attribute Value Description
alt text Specifies an alternate text
for an image
height pixels Specifies the height of an
image
ismap ismap Specifies an image as a
server-side image map
sizes sizes Specifies image sizes for
different page layouts
src URL Specifies the path to the
image
usemap #mapname Specifies an image as a
client-side image map
width pixels Specifies the width of an
image
✓ The <table> tag defines an HTML table.
✓ An HTML table consists of one <table> element and one or more <tr>, <th>,
<table>…</table> and <td> elements.
✓ The <tr> element defines a table row, the <th> element defines a table header,
and the <td> element defines a table cell.
<a>…</a> ✓ The HTML <a> tag, also known as the anchor tag, is used to create hyperlinks.
✓ The most important attribute of the <a> element is the href attribute, which
indicates the link's destination.