Digital Smiles Basic HTML rules and Tags

Digital Smiles Basic HTML rules and Tags

1. HTML = TEXT
2. <TAG>Area affected by tag</TAG>
3. HTML = HEAD + BODY
4. Case only counts after an equal sign =
5. Multiple TAGS & SPACES are ignored
6. There are always exceptions!

Common Tags

<HTML> - tells browser this is a HTML coded page (not *.doc or *.txt)
<HEAD> - browser looks for coding here
<META> - search engines look for coding here
<TITLE> - what shows up on the bottom of your browser and search engines
<BODY> - tells browser to start showing the page, main part of page
 - line break
 - paragraph break
<HR> - horizontal line break
<ALIGN= - alignment of paragraph, picture, tables, etc
<A> - hypertext link coming up, <a href=xyz.html>XYZ page</a>
 - bold
 - italic
 - underline
<PRE> - predefined text layout
<UL> - indentation command
<LI> - list (bullets, buttons) command
 - font description, colour, and size command
<IMG> - picture image call up command
...and don't forget to turn out the lights..err off the command with a "/" backslash

Except for <hr><img> 