Intro to Web Publishing

HTML -- the most useful tags for beginners

<HTML>

</HTML>

surrounds the whole document

<HEAD>

</HEAD>

surrounds the "header" portion of the document

<TITLE>

</TITLE>

gives the window title

<BODY>

</BODY>

surrounds the text of the document

<H#>

</H#>

(# a number: 1 to 6) formats a header

<P>

</P>

designates the start of a paragraph. </P> optional

<IMG>

specifies an image to be displayed in the document

<A>

</A>

specifies the start or destination of a hypertext link

<UL>

</UL>

surrounds an unnumbered (bulleted) list.

<LI>

</LI>

within a list, each <LI> begins a new list element . </LI> is optional

<BR>

inserts a line break

<HR>

places a horizontal line across the page

<CENTER>

</CENTER>

surrounds centered text (deprecated)

<B>

</B>

surrounds boldface text

<I>

</I>

surrounds Italic text

<PRE>

</PRE>

surrounds preformatted text


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