HTML Quick Reference V 1.2
(Including HTML 3.2, IE, and Netscape Extensions.)
About this page.
Basic Structure:
Specifies a comment. Anything between these tags will be skipped by
the browser.
This is the necessary first element of any HTML 3.2 compliant document.
.....< /HTML>
Encloses the entire document.
.....< /HEAD>
Encloses the head of the document. The following optional tags are
placed inside the head.
1......< /TITLE>
Indicates the title of the document that is used as the window
caption. This is the second of the two required tags for any HTML
3.2 compliant document.
2.
Specifies the base URL of the document. This is used when
dereferencing relative URLs in the page.
3.
Also specifies the base target frame that all links will default to. See
the LINK tag for possible values used in TARGET.
4.
This element can be used to specify name/value pairs describing
various properties of the document. Below are some examples:
To have your page automatically reloaded every X seconds, use
the following:
To have a different page automatically loaded after X seconds, use
the following:
To specify an expiration date for the page so that it will be reloaded
after a certain date, use:
To specify keywords for certain search services to use, do the
following:
To specify a description of your page for certain search services to
use, do the following:
5.
Currently this tag is not widely supported, however in the future
browsers will use a list of these tags to generate a navigation bar
for the site. Without browser support, this tag can still be useful for
site maintenance.
Attributes:
1.REL="..."--Specifies the type of relationship of the link to this
page. Possible values are: "home", "toc" (table of contents),
"index", "glossary", "copyright", "bookmark", "up", "next",
"previous", and "help".
2.REV="..."--Used instead of REL, this specifies a reverse
relationship from this page to the link. Possible values are:
"made" (author, set HREF=email address) and all the ones
used in REL.
3.HREF="..."--Specifies the address of the link.
4.TITLE="..."--Specifies a title for the link.
.....< /BODY>
Encloses the main body of the document.
Attributes:
1.ALINK="..."--Specifies the color of the activated links in the page.
2.BACKGROUND="..."--Specifies an image to be tiled as background.
3.BGCOLOR="..."--Specifies the background color.
4.BGPROPERTIES=FIXED--Fixes the background image so that it
doesn't scroll. (IE)
5.LEFTMARGIN="n"--Specifies the left margin for the entire page. (IE)
6.LINK="..."--Specifies the color of the links in the page.
7.TEXT="..."--Specifies the color of the text in the page.
8.TOPMARGIN="n"--Specifies the top margin for the entire page. (IE)
9.VLINK="..."--Specifies the color of the followed links in the page.
NOTE:Color is always expressed as RGB (Red Green Blue), where
each color has a value between 0 and 255 expressed in hex
notation. For example, BGCOLOR=#FFFF00 sets the background
color to yellow. For more information check out Colors of the Web.
...< /Hn>
Makes the enclosed text a heading of various sizes where n is any
number ranging from 1 to 6, and 1 creates the biggest heading while 6
creates the smallest.
Displays a text box indicating the presence of a searchable index. Simply
adding this tag will not create a searchable page. The server must be set
up to support it.
Attributes:
1.ACTION="..."--Specifies the location of the gateway program to
which the search string should be passed.
2.PROMPT="..."--Specifies an alternate prompt for the text box.
Multimedia:
Places an inline image into the document.
Attributes:
1.SRC="..."--Specifies the URL of the image.
2.DYNSRC="..."--Specifies the URL of a video clip or VRML world. An
image can also be specified first using SRC= to cover for browsers
that do not support videos. (IE)
3.CONTROLS--Adds a set of controls under the video clip. (IE)
4.LOOP="n"--For video clips, specifies the number of times to loop
the clip. A value of "-1" or "INFINITE" makes it loop indefinitely. (IE)
5.START="..."--Specifies when the video clip should start playing.
Possible values are "FILEOPEN" (default), "MOUSEOVER", or
both.(IE)
6.USEMAP="#map1" --Tells the browser that the image is a
client-side clickable image map defined under the name "map1".
7.ISMAP --Tells the browser that the image is a server-side clickable
image map.
8.ALT="..."--Specifies a text string to be displayed on browsers that
do not support inline images.
9.BORDER="..."--Specifies the width of the border drawn around the
image. If BORDER is set to "0", there will be no border even around
pictures that are links.
10.LOWSRC="..."--Specifies the URL of an image to be loaded first,
before the image specified in SRC is loaded. LOWSRC usually
reefers to a smaller image.
11.ALIGN="..."--Specifies the alignment of the image.
Values:
1.RIGHT or LEFT--Aligns the image to the specified side of the
page, and all text is wrapped around the image.
2.TOP, MIDDLE, BOTTOM, TEXTTOP, ABSMIDDLE, BASELINE,
and ABSBOTTOM--Specifies the vertical alignment of the
image with other items on the same line.
12.VSPACE="..."--Specifies the space left between the edge of the
image and the items above or below it.
13.HSPACE="..."--Specifies the space left between the edge of the
image and the items to the left or right of it.
14.WIDTH="..."--Specifies the width of the image. If the width is not the
actual width, the image is scaled to fit.
15.HEIGHT="..."--Same as above ,except it specifies the height of the
image.