HTML: A Guide to Hard-Coding

A list of Basic HTML Tags and their Attributes

Name	Tag	Attribute	Ending Tag?	Notes
Anchor	<A>	Href name	</A>	these are used with links
Area	<area>	coords href shape rect circ poly alt target	yes	Used in conjunction with <map>
Bold	<b>	none	yes
Background Sound	<bgsound>	src loop volume	no	does not work with Netscape
Big	<big>	none	yes	used with text
Blink	<blink>	none	yes	use this wisely--it is very annoying to most people
Blockquote	<blockquote>	none	yes	indents a paragraph to show that it is a quotation
Body	<body>	background bgcolor alink link text vlink	yes	this is the "viewable" part of your page
Line Break	<br>	none	no	use a line break when you don't want to skip a line
Center	<Center>	none	yes
Emphasis	<em>	none	yes	most browsers will interpret this as italics
Font	<font>	face size color	yes	controls the look of your text
Form	<form>	action method target	yes	for interactive data entry on a page
Frame	<frame>	frameborder marginheight marginwidth name noresize scrolling src	no
Frameset	<frameset>	cols rows	yes	used to make a "shell" of frames
Headings	<h1> to <h6>	align left right center	yes	<H1> is the largest, <H6> is the smallest. I prefer to use sizes rather than headings.
<head>	<head>	none	yes
Horizontal Rule	<hr>	align left right center noshade size width	no	used for graphic impact; puts a line on your page
Italic	<i>	none	yes
Image	<img>	align left right alt border height src width usemap	no	inserts an image into your page
List Item	<li>	none	no	used in ordered <ol> and unordered <ul> lists
Map	<map>	name	yes	used with the <area> tag to create an image map with hotspot links
Marquee	<marquee>	behavior bgcolor direction height loop scrolldelay width	yes	does not work with Netscape
Meta	<meta>	content http-equiv name		used for hidden informational elements
Ordered List	<ol>	type a A i I 1	yes	numbers or letters a list
Paragraph	<p>	align left right center	no	The end tag is not necessary, but is usually used. Most browsers insert a line before and after a paragraph of text.
Strong	<strong>	none	yes
Subscript	<sub>	none	yes
Superscript	<sup>	none	yes
Table	<table>	align left right center bgcolor border cellpadding cellspacing width height background	yes	use with <td> and <tr> Very helpful for page layout
Table Data	<td>	align left right center bgcolor rowspan colspan width height	yes	these are the "cells" in a table
Table Row	<tr>	align left right center bgcolor	yes	tables only have rows, not columns
Table Header	<th>	align left right center bgcolor rowspan colspan width height	yes	this secifies a header cell in a table. Must be used in a <TR>
Title	<title>	none	yes	placed within the <head> tags. A descriptive title is very important
Unordered List	<ul>	type circle disc square	yes	a bulleted list