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HTML 4.0 tag help


Introduction:
The purpose of this document is to be a quick reference for HTML 4.0 tags, not a complete guide on HTML, or the full specification for it. If you are looking for something like that then I suggest you go to the official specification and read through it

The tags are split up into 15 groups, the same ones used for syntax highlighting, and that appear in the supplied "tag tree". Those groups are:


Global Structure:
There are 7 tags classified under this section, they are:

 <!-- -->:
The purpose of this tag is to insert comments into your HTML, its contents will be completly ignored by the browser.
 <!DOCTYPE>:
The !DOCTYPE tag gives the parsing program (generally a web browser) an indication as to what standard the HTML is written to. For instance:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">

is the DOCTYPE for this document, and states that it complies to HTML 4.0 Transitional, and the specification for this can be found at the url mentioned.
 <BODY>:

<HTML>:

<HEAD>:

<META>:

<TITLE>:

Body Structure:
There are 10 tags classified under this section, they are:
  • <ADDRESS>
  • <CENTER>
  • <DIV>
  • <H1>
  • <H2>
  • <H3>
  • <H4>
  • <H5>
  • <H6>
  • <SPAN>

Text Direction:
There is only 1 tag in this section, which is:
  • <BDO>

Text Structure:
There are 14 tags classified under this section, they are:
  • <ABBR>
  • <ACRONYM>
  • <BLOCKQUOTE>
  • <CITE>
  • <CODE>
  • <DFN>
  • <EM>
  • <KBD>
  • <Q>
  • <SAMP>
  • <STRONG>
  • <SUB>
  • <SUP>
  • <VAR>

Text Paragraphs:
There are 4 tags classified under this section, they are:
  • <BR>
  • <HR>
  • <P>
  • <PRE>

Text Changes:
There are 2 tags classified under this section, they are:
  • <DEL>
  • <INS>

Lists:
There are 8 tags classified under this section, they are:
  • <DD>
  • <DIR>
  • <DL>
  • <DT>
  • <LI>
  • <MENU>
  • <OL>
  • <UL>

Tables:
There are 10 tags classified under this section, they are:
  • <CAPTION>
  • <COL>
  • <COLGROUP>
  • <TABLE>
  • <TBODY>
  • <TD>
  • <TFOOT>
  • <TH>
  • <THEAD>
  • <TR>

Links:
There are 3 tags classified under this section, they are:
  • <A>
  • <BASE>
  • <LINK>

Objects:
There are 6 tags classified under this section, they are:
  • <APPLET>
  • <AREA>
  • <IMG>
  • <MAP>
  • <OBJECT>
  • <PARAM>

Style Sheets:
There is only 1 tag in this section, which is:
  • <STYLE>

Fonts:
There are 10 tags classified under this section, they are:
  • <B>
  • <BASEFONT>
  • <BIG>
  • <FONT>
  • <I>
  • <S>
  • <SMALL>
  • <STRIKE>
  • <TT>
  • <U>

Frames:
There are 4 tags classified under this section, they are:
  • <FRAME>
  • <FRAMESET>
  • <IFRAME>
  • <NOFRAMES>

Forms:
There are 11 tags classified under this section, they are:
  • <BUTTON>
  • <FIELDSET>
  • <FORM>
  • <INPUT>
  • <ISINDEX>
  • <LABEL>
  • <LEGEND>
  • <OPTGROUP>
  • <OPTION>
  • <SELECT>
  • <TEXTAREA>

Scripts:
There are 2 tags classified under this section, they are:
  • <NOSCRIPT>
  • <SCRIPT>


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Last modified: Tue Jul 20 20:17:30 BST 1999