HTML Tags
href
hypertext reference, [attribute]
< link >
Tag placed in the <head> section which defines the relationship between a document and an external resource [HTML Tag]
< meta >
Tag placed in the <head> section which describes metadata within an HTML document (describes the information in the document) [HTML Tag]
< button >
Tag used for creating a button within forms, [HTML Tag]
< select >
Tag used for defining a select list (a drop-down box), [HTML Tag]
< table >
Tag used for defining a table, the table tag contains other tags that define the structure of the table, [HTML Tag]
< span >
Tag used for grouping and applying styles to inline elements (inline as in the inside of the element), [HTML Tag]
< fieldset >
Tag used for grouping related form elements (placed inside of the <form> element), [HTML Tag]
< legend >
Tag used for labelling the fieldset element (used together with the <form> and <fieldset> tags), [HTML Tag]
< td >
Tag used for specifying a cell (or table data) within a table, [HTML Tag]
< th >
Tag used for specifying a header cell (or table header) within a table, [HTML Tag]
< li >
Tag used for specifying a list item (nest together with <ul> and <ol> tags), [HTML Tags]
< tr >
Tag used for specifying a table row within a table, a table row contains one or more td and/or th tags which determine individual cells, [HTML Tag]
< dl >
Tag used for starting a definition list (used together with <dt> and <dd> tags), [HTML Tag]
< ol >
Tag used for starting an ordered list (numbered list), [HTML Tag]
< ul >
Tag used for starting an unordered list (or un-numbered list), [HTML Tag]
< optgroup >
Tag used to group together related options in a drop-down box(enclose <option> tags to group them), [HTML Tag]
< dfn >
Tag which defines a definition term, [HTML Tag]
< dd >
Tag which defines a description of a term in a definition list, [HTML Tag]
< dt >
Tag which defines a term (an item) in a definition list, [HTML Tag]
< abbr >
Tag which defines an abbreviation, [HTML Tag]
< acronym >
Tag which defines an acronym, [HTML Tag]
< address >
Tag which defines an address element, [HTML Tag]
< area / >
Tag which defines an area inside an image-map (used in conjunction with the <map> and <img /> tags), [HTML Tag]
< big >
Tag which defines big text, [HTML Tag]
< b >
Tag which defines bold text, [HTML Tag]
< del >
Tag which defines deleted text, [HTML Tag]
< em >
Tag which defines emphasized text, [HTML Tag]
< pre >
Tag which defines preformatted text (also known as a Computer Output tag), [HTML Tag]
< samp >
Tag which defines sample computer code text (also known as a Computer Output tag), [HTML Tag]
< strong >
Tag which defines strong text, [HTML Tag]
< sub >
Tag which defines subscripted text, [HTML Tag]
< sup >
Tag which defines superscripted text, [HTML Tag]
< tt >
Tag which defines teletype text (also known as a Computer Output tag), [HTML Tag]
< style >
Tag which is placed in the <head> section in order start the description of a style sheet [HTML Tag]
< title >
Tag which is placed inside of the <head> that defines the html document title [HTML Tag]
noresize
A frame attribute which prevents people from re-sizing the frame [attribute]
< hr / >
A tag used for creating a horizontal rule (a separator line), [HTML Tag]
name
Attaches a label of your choice to the HTML element so it can be linked within the document (<p name="label">,<a href="#label">), [attribute]
shape
Attribute used to specify the shape of an area (values: default, rect, circle, poly), [attribute]
cols
Defines the amount of screen area each column will occupy [attribute]
style
HTML provides a "style" attribute on most elements, to hold a fragment of a style sheet that applies to those elements. One of the possible style sheet languages is CSS, [attribute]
HTML Tags
Keywords surrounded by angle brackets, like <html>(also known as HTML markup tags), [general]
attributes
Provide additional information about HTML elements which come in name/value pairs eg: name="value"(names and values should be in lowercase), [general]
alt
Short version of "alternate text" attribute which specifies text to be used in case the browser/user agent can't render the image, [attribute]
< !--...-- >
Tag is used for creating comments within your HTML code, [HTML Tag]
< p >
The <p>(paragraph) element acts as a container for the text between the start tag <p> and the end tag </p>, [HTML Tag]
< body >
The HTML <body> tag is used for indicating the main content section of the HTML document. The <body> tag is placed between the </head> and the </html> tags, [HTML Tag]
< a >
Used for creating a hyperlink to either another document, or somewhere within the current document, [HTML Tag]
HTML Element
An HTML element is everything from the start tag to the end tag, eg: <p>this is the paragraph element</p>, [general]
< form >
An area that can contain form elements (elements that allow the user to enter information), [HTML Tag]
colspan
An attribute that specifies the number of columns the current cell spans across, [attribute]
rowspan
An attribute that specifies the number of rows the current cell spans across, [attribute]
target
An attribute used for specifying how a link should be opened (values: _blank, _parent, _self, _top), [attribute]
dir
An attribute which sets the text direction (values: "ltr" OR "rtl"), [attribute]
nohref
An attribute which specifies that an area has no associated link, [attribute]
coords
An attribute which specifies the coordinates of an area, [attribute]
border
An attribute which specifies the width of the border around the table, [attribute]
height
An attribute within an <img /> tag that specifies the height of the image, [attribute]
width
An attribute within an <img /> tag that specifies the width of the image, [attribute]
< html >
Contains all other HTML tags (except for the !DOCTYPE tag which is located before the opening html tag), [HTML Tag]
< caption >
Creates a table caption (placed between the <table> and <tr> tags), [HTML Tag]
rows
Defines the amount of screen area each row will occupy [attribute]
< script >
Defines the start of a script (like javascript), [HTML Tag]
< base >
Tag placed in the <head> section which defines the base URL for all the links on a page (sets the default) [HTML Tag]
< label >
Tag used for adding a label to a form control, [HTML Tag]
< iframe >
Tag used for creating an inline frame (a frame inside an HTML page) [HTML Tag]
< img / >
Tag used for embedding images into an HTML document, [HTML Tag]
< option >
Tag used to define an option in the drop-down box, [HTML Tag]
< noframes >
Tag used to enclose information for browsers that do not support the <frameset> tag [HTML Tag]
< div >
Tag used with block-level elements (can group multiple elements together), [HTML Tag]
< head >
Tag which contains general information, also called meta-information, about an HTML document[HTML Tag]
< cite >
Tag which defines a citation, [HTML Tag]
< blockquote >
Tag which defines a long quotation, [HTML Tag]
< textarea >
Tag which defines a multi-line text input field, [HTML Tag]
< var >
Tag which defines a variable (also known as a Computer Output tag), [HTML Tag]
< code >
Tag which defines computer code text (also known as a Computer Output tag), [HTML Tag]
< frameset >
Tag which defines how to divide the window into frames [HTML Tag]
< ins >
Tag which defines inserted text, [HTML Tag]
< i >
Tag which defines italic text, [HTML Tag]
< kbd >
Tag which defines keyboard text (also known as a Computer Output tag), [HTML Tag]
< small >
Tag which defines small text, [HTML Tag]
< bdo >
Tag which defines the direction of text, [HTML Tag]
< tbody >
Tag which defines the table body (placed AFTER <thead> AND <tfoot>), [HTML Tag]
< tfoot >
Tag which defines the table footer (placed after <thead> and BEFORE <tbody>), [HTML Tag]
< thead >
Tag which defines the table head (placed before <tfoot> and <tbody>), [HTML Tag]
< frame >
Tag which holds the settings for each frame (like what HTML documents to put into the frame and the noresize attribute) [HTML Tag]
< input >
This tag, when combined with the "type" attribute allows users to INPUT different TYPEs of data (values: button, checkbox, file, hidden, image, password, radio, reset, submit, text), [HTML Tag]
< br / >
Used for specifying a line break, contents after this tag are moved to a new line, [HTML Tag]
< col >
Used for specifying column properties for each column within a colgroup (placed between the <colgroup> and </colgroup> tags), [HTML Tag]
< h1 >
Used for specifying level 1 headings. There are 6 levels of headings, browsers typically render the various headings in different sizes, with h1 being the largest (most important) and h6 being the smallest (least important), [HTML Tag]
< h2 >
Used for specifying level 2 headings. There are 6 levels of headings, browsers typically render the various headings in different sizes, with h1 being the largest (most important) and h6 being the smallest (least important), [HTML Tag]
< h3 >
Used for specifying level 3 headings. There are 6 levels of headings, browsers typically render the various headings in different sizes, with h1 being the largest (most important) and h6 being the smallest (least important), [HTML Tag]
< h4 >
Used for specifying level 4 headings. There are 6 levels of headings, browsers typically render the various headings in different sizes, with h1 being the largest (most important) and h6 being the smallest (least important), [HTML Tag]
< h5 >
Used for specifying level 5 headings. There are 6 levels of headings, browsers typically render the various headings in different sizes, with h1 being the largest (most important) and h6 being the smallest (least important), [HTML Tag]
< h6 >
Used for specifying level 6 headings. There are 6 levels of headings, browsers typically render the various headings in different sizes, with h1 being the largest (most important) and h6 being the smallest (least important), [HTML Tag]
< colgroup >
Used for specifying properties for a group of columns within a table(placed between the <table> and <tr> tags), [HTML Tag]
< !doctype >
Used for specifying which version of HTML the document is using. This is referred to as the document type declaration (DTD), [HTML Tag]
< map >
Used in conjunction with the <area /> and <img /> tags to create an image map (an image with clickable parts), [HTML Tag]
src
shortened version of the word "source" used as an attribute in the <img /> tag, [attribute]