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HTML Cheat Sheet - A Simple Guide To HTML

This document provides a summary of common HTML tags and their attributes in an easy-to-read format, grouped into relevant sections such as basic HTML structure, common tags for blogs, text formatting, section divisions, images, linking tags, lists, tables, and frames. It includes the purpose of each tag and lists their main attributes to help provide a simple guide and quick reference to HTML.

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HTML Cheat Sheet - A Simple Guide To HTML

This document provides a summary of common HTML tags and their attributes in an easy-to-read format, grouped into relevant sections such as basic HTML structure, common tags for blogs, text formatting, section divisions, images, linking tags, lists, tables, and frames. It includes the purpose of each tag and lists their main attributes to help provide a simple guide and quick reference to HTML.

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A Simple Guide to HTML


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HTML Cheat Sheet


This cheat sheet - or HTML code quick reference - lists the common HTML tags and their attributes, grouped into
relevant sections in an easy-to-read format.

What is “html”? What are “tags”? - Perhaps check out where to start or what is html first :-)

Basic HTML Structure Help | Top

<html>
<head>
<title>website title</title>
</head>
<body>
content of website ...
</body>
</html>

Common Tags for Blogs Help | Top

<h?> heading </h?> Heading (h1 for largest to h6 for smallest)


<p> paragraph </p> Paragraph of Text
<b> bold </b> Make text between tags bold
<i> italic </i> Make text between tags italic
<a href="url"> link name </a> Create a link to another page or website
<div> ... </div> Divide up page content into sections, and applying styles
<img src="filename.jpg"> Show an image
<ul> <li> list </li> </ul> Unordered, bullet-point list
<br> Line Break (force a new line)
<span style="color:red"> red </span> Use CSS style to change text colour

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Text Formatting Help | Top

<h?> ... </h?> Heading (?= 1 for largest to 6 for smallest, eg h1)
<b> ... </b> Bold Text
<i> ... </i> Italic Text
<u> ... </u> Underline Text
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<strike> ... </strike> Strikeout
<sup> ... </sup> Superscript - Smaller text placed below normal text
<sub> ... </sub> Subscript - Smaller text placed below normal text
<small> ... </small> Small - Fineprint size text
<tt> ... </tt> Typewriter Text
<pre> ... </pre> Pre-formatted Text
<blockquote> ... </blockquote> Text Block Quote
<strong> ... </strong> Strong - Shown as Bold in most browsers
<em> ... </em> Emphasis - Shown as Italics in most browsers
<font> ... </font> Font tag obsolete, use CSS. (*)

Section Divisions Help | Top

<div> ... </div> Division or Section of Page Content


<span> ... </span> Section of text within other content
<p> ... </p> Paragraph of Text
<br> Line Break
<hr> Basic Horizontal Line
<hr> Tag Attributes:
size="?" Line Thickness in pixels
width="?" Line Width in pixels
width="??%" Line Width as a percentage
color="#??????" Line Colour (*)
align="?" Horizontal Alignment: left, center, right (*)
noshade No 3D cut-out
<nobr> ... </nobr> Line Break

Images Help | Top

<img src="url" alt="text"> Basic Image


<img> Tag Attributes:
src="url" URL or filename of image (required!)
alt="text" Alternate Text (required!)
align="?" Image alignment within surrounding text (*)
width="??" Image width (in pixels or %)
height="??" Image height (in pixels or %)
border="??" Border thickness (in pixels) (*)
vspace="??" Space above and below image (in pixels) (*)
hspace="??" Space on either side of image (in pixels) (*)

Linking Tags Help | Top

<a href="url"> link text </a> Basic Link


<a> Tag Attributes:
href="url" Location (url) of page to link to.
name="??" Name of link (name of anchor, or name of bookmark)
target="?" Link target location: _self, _blank, _top, _parent.
href="url#bookmark" Link to a bookmark (defined with name attribute).
href="mailto:email" Link which initiates an email (dependant on user's email client).

Lists Help | Top

<ol> ... </ol> Ordered List


<ul> ... </ul> Un-ordered List
<li> ... </li> List Item (within ordered or unordered)
<ol type="?"> Ordered list type: A, a, I, i, 1
<ol start="??"> Ordered list starting value
<ul type="?"> Unordered list bullet type: disc, circle, square
<li value="??"> List Item Value (changes current and subsequent items)
<li type="??"> List Item Type (changes only current item)
<dl> ... </dl> Definition List
<dt> ... </dt> Term or phrase being defined

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<dd> ... </dd> Detailed Definition of term

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Tables Help | Top

<table> ... </table> Define a Table


<table> Tag Attributes:
border="?" Thickness of outside border
bordercolor="#??????" Border Colour
cellspacing="?" Space between cells (pixels)
cellpadding="?" Space between cell wall and content
align="??" Horizontal Alignment: left, center, right (*)
bgcolor="#??????" Background Colour (*)
width="??" Table Width (pixels or %) (*)
height="??" Table Height (pixels or %) (*)
<tr> ... </tr> Table Row within table
<th> ... </th> Header Cell within table row
<td> ... </td> Table Cell within table row
<td> Tag Attributes:
colspan="?" Number of columns the cell spans across (cell merge)
rowspan="?" Number of row a cell spans across (cell merge)
width="??" Cell Width (pixels or %) (*)
height="??" Cell Height (pixels or %) (*)
bgcolor="#??????" Background Colour (*)
align="??" Horizontal Alignment: left, center, right (*)
valign="??" Vertical Alignment: top, middle, bottom (*)
nowrap Force no line breaks in a particular cell

Frames Help | Top

<frameset> ... </frameset> Define the set of Frames


<frameset> Tag Attributes:
rows="??,??, ..." Define row sizes & number of rows (size in pixels or %)
cols="??,??, ..." Define column sizes & number of columns (size in pixels or %)
noresize="noresize" User cannot resize any frames in frameset
<frame> ... </frame> Define a frame within the frameset
<frame> Tag Attributes:
src="url" Location of HTML File for a frame
name="***" Unique name of frame window
marginwidth="?" Horizontal margin spacing inside frame (pixels)
marginheight="?" Vertical margin spacing inside frame (pixels)
noresize="noresize" Declare all frameset sizes as fixed
scrolling="***" Can the user scroll inside the frame: yes, no, auto
frameborder="?" Frame Border: (1=yes, 2=no)
bordercolor="#??????" Border Colour (*)

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<noframes> ... </noframes> Unframed content (for browsers not supporting frames)

Forms Help | Top

<form> ... </form> Form input group decleration


<form> Tag Attributes:
action="url" URL of Form Script
method="***" Method of Form: get, post
enctype="***" For File Upload: enctype="multipart/form-data"
<input> ... </input> Input field within form
<input> Tag Attributes:
type="***" Input Field Type: text, password, checkbox, submit etc.
name="***" Form Field Name (for form processing script)
value="***" Value of Input Field
size="***" Field Size
maxlength="?" Maximum Length of Input Field Data
checked Mark selected field in radio button group or checkbox
<select> ... </select> Select options from drop down list
<select> Tag Attributes:
name="***" Drop Down Combo-Box Name (for form processing script)
size="?" Number of selectable options
multiple Allow multiple selections
<option> ... </option> Option (item) within drop down list
<option> Tag Attributes:
value="***" Option Value
selected Set option as default selected option
<textarea> ... </textarea> Large area for text input
<textarea> Tag Attributes:
name="***" Text Area Name (for form processing script)
rows="?" Number of rows of text shown
cols="?" Number of columns (characters per rows)
wrap="***" Word Wrapping: off, hard, soft

Special Characters Help | Top

&lt; < - Less-Than Symbol


&gt; > - Greater-Than Symbol
&amp; & - Ampersand, or 'and' sign
&quot; " - Quotation Mark
&copy; © - Copyright Symbol
&trade; ™ - Trademark Symbol
&nbsp; - A space (non-breaking space)
&#??; ISO 8859-1 character - replace ?? with the iso code

Miscellaneous Tags Help | Top

<!-- ... --> Comment within HTML source code


<!DOCTYPE html ... > Document Type Definition (wiki)
<meta> ... </meta> META information tag
<meta> Tag Attributes:
name="***" Meta name: description, keywords, author
http-equiv="***" HTTP Equivalent Info: title, etc.
content="***" Information content
<link> LINK content relationship tag
<link> Tag Attributes:
rel="***" Type of forward relationship
http="url" Location (URL) of object or file being linked
type="***" Type of object or file, eg: text/css
title="***" Link title (optional)

Body Background & Colours Help | Top

<body> Tag Attributes:

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background="url" Background Image (*)
bgcolor="#??????" Background Colour (*)
text="#??????" Document Text Colour (*)
link="#??????" Link Colour (*)
vlink="#??????" Visited Link Colour (*)
alink="#??????" Active Link Colour (*)
bgproperties="fixed" Background Properties - "Fixed" = non-scrolling watermark (*)
leftmargin="?" Side Margin Size in Pixels (Internet Explorer) (*)
topmargin="?" Top Margin Size in Pixels (Internet Explorer) (*)

(*) Important Note:


Tags marked with (*) should still work, but have been superseded by Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), which is now
the recommended way to change the font, colour, spacing, border or alignment of HTML elements.

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Essential Tags

The Basics

Text Formatting Tags

Section Divisions

Images

Linking Tags

Lists

Tables

Frames

Forms

Special Characters

Miscellaneous

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