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HTML Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition

HTML Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition

By Jennifer Niederst
Second Edition January 2002 
ISBN 0-596-00296-3
104 pages

Excerpt
Structural Tags

Tag Groups

The following lists group HTML tags by similar function. See the "Alphabetical Tag List" section for complete descriptions of each tag.

Structural Tags

The following tags are used primarily to give the document structure.

<!DOCTYPE>
<base>
<body>
<head>
<html>
<link>
<meta>
<title>

Text Tags: Block-Level Elements

Block-level elements are always formatted with a line-break before and after, with most adding some amount of additional space above and below as well.

<address>
<blockquote>
<dd>
<div>
<dl>
<dt>
<h1> through <h6>
<li>
<ol>
<p>
<ul>

Text Tags: Inline Styles

The following tags affect the appearance of text. "Inline" means they can be applied to a string of characters within a block element without introducing line breaks.

<b>
<big>
<cite>
<code>
<em>
<font> (deprecated)
<i>
<kbd>
<pre>
<s> (deprecated)
<samp>
<small>
<span>
<strike> (deprecated)
<strong>
<sub>
<sup>
<tt>
<u> (deprecated)
<var>

Text Tags: Logical Styles

Logical or content-based styles describe the enclosed text's meaning, context, or usage and leave rendering of the tag to the browser.

<abbr>
<acronym>
<cite>
<code>
<del>
<div>
<em>
<ins>
<kbd>
<q>
<samp>
<span>
<strong>
<var>

Text Tags: Physical Styles

Physical styles provide specific display instructions.

<b>
<big>
<blink> (Navigator only)
<font> (deprecated)
<i>
<s> (deprecated)
<small>
<strike> (deprecated)
<sub>
<sup>
<tt>
<u> (deprecated)

List Tags

<dir> (deprecated)
<dl>
<dd>
<dt>
<li>
<menu> (deprecated)
<ol>
<ul>

Spacing and Positioning Tags

The following tags give authors control over the line breaks, alignment, and spacing within an HTML document.

<br>
<center> (deprecated)
<nobr> (nonstandard)
<pre>
<spacer>
<table> (<th>, <tr>, <td>)
<wbr> (nonstandard)

Linking Tags

The following tags are used to create links from one document to another.

<a>
<link> (most commonly used for style sheets)
<map> (used in client-side imagemaps)
<area> (used in client-side imagemaps)

Table Tags

The following tags are used in the creation and formatting of tables.

<caption>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<th>

The following table structure tags are supported by HTML 4.01, Internet Explorer 4.0+, and Netscape 6.

<col>
<colgroup>
<tbody>
<thead>
<tfoot>

Frame Tags

Frames are created using the following tags.

<frame>
<frameset>
<noframes>

Form Tags

The following tags are used to define forms and their elements.

<button>
<form>
<input>
(type=button|checkbox|file|hidden|image|
password|radio|reset|submit|text)

<option>
<select>
<textarea>

The following form tags are supported by HTML 4.01, Internet Explorer 4.0+, and Netscape 6.

<fieldset>
<label>
<legend>

Multimedia Tags

The following tags are used to add multimedia elements to web pages.

<applet> (deprecated)
<bgsound> (Internet Explorer only)
<embed> (dropped from HTML 4)
<object>
<param>

Script Tags

The following tags are used to add scripts to HTML documents.

<script>
<noscript>

Deprecated Tags

The following tags have been deprecated in the HTML 4.01 specification, usually in favor of style sheet controls.

<applet>
<basefont>
<center>
<dir>
<font>
<isindex>
<menu>
<s>
<strike>
<u>

Navigator-only Tags

The following tags are supported only by Navigator.

<blink>
<ilayer>
<keygen>
<layer>
<multicol>
<server>
<spacer>

Internet Explorer-only Tags

The following tags are supported only by Internet Explorer.

<bgsound>
<comment>
<marquee>
<ruby>
<rt>

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