<!-- ••• --> | allows you to insert comments into an HTML document and have them completely ignored by the browser. |
<!DOCTYPE ...> | tells the browser what version of HTML you are writing in. More specifically, <!DOCTYPE ...> declares that this document conforms to a specific version of HTML, and specifies what version that is.
Use this tag if you want to use an SGML/HTML validator. Otherwise, this tag is of little use. |
<A ...> Anchor | HREF: URL you are linking to
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NAME: name a section of the page
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TARGET = "_blank" | "_parent" | "_self" | "_top" | window name
which window the document should go in
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TITLE: suggested title for the document to be opened
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ACCESSKEY: Like <INPUT ACCESSKEY="..."> and <BUTTON ACCESSKEY="...">, this attribute of <A ...> sets a shortcut key that "clicks" on the link.
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onClick: script to run when the user clicks on this anchor
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onMouseOver: when the mouse is over the link
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onMouseOut: when the mouse is no longer over the link |
<ADDRESS> | denotes contact information for the author or organization of the web site. |
<APP ...> | This tag has been renamed <APPLET ...>. (Use it!) |
<APPLET ...> | CODE: the applet to run
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CODEBASE: path to the applet class
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WIDTH: width of the applet
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HEIGHT: height of the applet
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ALIGN = LEFT | RIGHT | TOP | MIDDLE | BOTTOM | BASELINE
alignment of applet to surrounding text
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VSPACE: vertical space between applet and surrounding text
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HSPACE: horizontal space between applet and surrounding text
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BORDER: empty space surrounding the applet
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NAME: name of applet for reference by other applets
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ARCHIVE: a compressed collection of applet components
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MAYSCRIPT: If Java can use JavaScript |
<AREA ...> | HREF: URL you are linking to
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ALT: alternate text if the image isn't displayed
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SHAPE = RECT | CIRCLE | POLY | DEFAULT
what shape is this area?
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COORDS: coordinates for the link area shape
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TITLE: Short description of the area
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TARGET: what frame to go to
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NOHREF: this area is not a link
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onClick: script action when the user clicks this area
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onMouseOver
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onMouseOut |
<B> | Bold |
<BASE ...> Base Address | HREF: default address for hypertext links
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TARGET = "_blank" | "_parent" | "_self" | "_top" | frame name
default window for linked documents |
<BASEFONT ...> | SIZE
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COLOR
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FACE |
<BGSOUND ...> | SRC: URL of the sound
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LOOP = INFINITE | number of loops
how many times to play the sound |
<BIG> | makes the text bigger |
<BLINK> | causes the text to blink |
<BLOCKQUOTE ...> | Block Quote |
<BODY ...> | BGCOLOR: background color of the page
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BACKGROUND: background picture for the page
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TEXT: color of the text on the page
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LINK: color of links that haven't been followed yet
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VLINK: color of links that have been followed
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ALINK: color of links while you are clicking on them
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BGPROPERTIES = FIXED
if the background image should not scroll
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TOPMARGIN: size of top and bottom margins
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LEFTMARGIN: size of left and right margins
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MARGINHEIGHT: size of top and bottom margins
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MARGINWIDTH: size of left and right margins
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onLoad: Script to run once the page is fully loaded
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onUnload
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onFocus
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onBlur
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STYLESRC: MS FrontPage extension
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SCROLL = YES | NO
If the document should have a scroll bar |
<BR ...> Line Break | CLEAR = LEFT | RIGHT | ALL | BOTH
go past a picture or other object |
<BUTTON ...> | TYPE = BUTTON | SUBMIT | RESET
what type of button is this
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onClick: script to run when the user clicks here
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NAME: name of this button element
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VALUE: the value sent with the form
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DISABLED: disable this button
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ACCESSKEY: shortcut key for this button
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TABINDEX: tab order |
<CAPTION ...> | ALIGN = TOP | BOTTOM | LEFT | RIGHT
alignment of caption to table
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VALIGN = TOP | BOTTOM
if caption should be above or below table |
<CENTER ...> | indicates a section that is centered |
<CITE> | indicates a reference to work, such as a book, report or web site |
<CODE> | indicates text that is the code for a program |
<COL ...> Column | SPAN: how many columns this affects
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ALIGN = LEFT | CENTER | RIGHT | JUSTIFY
horizontal alignment
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WIDTH: width of the column
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BGCOLOR: background color of the column |
<COLGROUP ...> Column Group | SPAN: how many columns this affects
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ALIGN: alignment of cell contents
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WIDTH: Width of the column group |
<DD> | Definition Description |
<DEL> | Deleted |
<DFN> | Definition |
<DIR ...> | Directory List |
<DIV ...> | ALIGN = LEFT | CENTER | RIGHT | JUSTIFY
text alignment |
<DL ...> Definition List | COMPACT: take up less space |
<DT> | Definition Term |
<EM> | Emphasis |
<EMBED ...> | SRC: URL of resource to be embedded
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WIDTH: width of area in which to show resource
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HEIGHT: height of area in which to show resource
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ALIGN = ABSBOTTOM | ABSMIDDLE | MIDDLE | TEXTTOP | RIGHT | LEFT | BASELINE | CENTER | BOTTOM | TOP
how text should flow around the picture
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NAME: name of the embedded object
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PLUGINSPAGE: where to get the plugin software
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PLUGINURL: where to get the JAR archive for automatic installation
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HIDDEN = FALSE | TRUE
if the object is visible or not
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HREF: make this object a link
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TARGET: frame to link to
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AUTOSTART = TRUE | FALSE
if the sound/movie should start automatically
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LOOP = TRUE | FALSE | # of loops
how many times to play the sound/movie
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PLAYCOUNT: how many times to play the sound/movie
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VOLUME: how loud to play the sound
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CONTROLS = VOLUMELEVER | STOPBUTTON | PAUSEBUTTON | PLAYBUTTON | SMALLCONSOLE | CONSOLE
which sound control to display
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CONTROLLER = TRUE | FALSE
if controls should be displayed
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MASTERSOUND: indicates the object in a sound group with the sound to use
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STARTTIME: how far into the sound to start and stop
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ENDTIME: when to finish playing |
<FIELDSET> | defines a group of form elements as being logically related |
<FONT ...> | SIZE: size of the font
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COLOR: color of the text
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FACE: set the typestyle for text
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POINT-SIZE
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WEIGHT |
<FORM ...> | ACTION: URL of the CGI program
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METHOD = GET | POST
how to transfer the data to the CGI
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NAME: name of this form
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ENCTYPE = "multipart/form-data" | "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" | "text/plain"
what type of form this is
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TARGET = "_blank" | "_parent" | "_self" | "_top" | frame name
what frames to put the results in
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onSubmit: script to run before the form is submitted
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onReset: script to run before the form is reset |
<FRAME ...> | SRC: what file to put in the frame
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NAME: the name of the frame
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SCROLLING = YES | NO | AUTO
should the frame have a scrollbar?
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NORESIZE: don't let the user make the frame bigger or smaller
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FRAMEBORDER = YES | 1 | NO | 0
should this frame have a border?
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BORDERCOLOR: color of the surrounding border
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MARGINWIDTH: the internal left and right margins for the frame
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MARGINHEIGHT: the internal top and bottom margins for the frame |
<FRAMESET ...> | COLS: how many cols in the frameset
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ROWS: how many rows in the frameset
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FRAMEBORDER = YES | 1 | NO | 0
if the frames should have borders
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FRAMESPACING: space between the frames
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BORDER: space between frames
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BORDERCOLOR: color of frame borders
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<H# ...> Headers<H1 ...>, <H2 ...>, <H3 ...>,
<H4 ...>,
<H5 ...>,
<H6 ...> | ALIGN = LEFT | RIGHT | CENTER | JUSTIFY
alignment |
<HEAD> | is like the cover page of the document. |
<HR ...> Horizontal Rule | NOSHADE: don't use shadow effect
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SIZE: height
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WIDTH: horizontal width of the line
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ALIGN = LEFT | RIGHT | CENTER
horizontal alignment of the line
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COLOR: color of the line |
<HTML> | Everything in the document goes inside <HTML>, except that <!DOCTYPE ...> (if you choose to use it) goes just before. |
<HTMLPLUS ...> | HTML+ was a short-lived version of HTML. |
<HYPE> | is an "easter egg", an obscure feature hidden in a program for no other purpose than to make the programmers giggle themselves silly. In some versions of Netscape. |
<I> | Italics |
<IFRAME ...> Inline Frame | SRC: URL of the document to go in the frame
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HEIGHT: height of the inline frame
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WIDTH: width of the inline frame
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NAME: name of this inline frame
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LONGDESC: URL of a long description of the contents of the frame
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FRAMEBORDER = 1 | 0
if the frame should have a border around it
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MARGINWIDTH: internal left/right margin for the frame
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MARGINHEIGHT: internal top/bottom margin for the frame
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SCROLLING = YES | NO | AUTO
if the frame should have scroll bars
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ALIGN = LEFT | RIGHT | TOP | TEXTTOP | MIDDLE | ABSMIDDLE | CENTER | BOTTOM | ABSBOTTOM | BASELINE
alignment of the frame object to text around it
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VSPACE: space above and below the frame
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HSPACE: space to the left and right of the frame |
<IMG ...> Image | SRC: where to get the picture
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ALT: text to show if you don't show the picture
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NAME
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LONGDESC: URL of a long description of the image
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WIDTH: how wide is the picture
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HEIGHT: how tall is the picture
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ALIGN = LEFT | RIGHT | TOP | TEXTTOP | MIDDLE | ABSMIDDLE | BOTTOM | ABSBOTTOM | BASELINE
how text should flow around the picture
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BORDER: border around the picture
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HSPACE: horizontal distance between the picture and the text
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VSPACE: vertical distance between the picture and the text
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ISMAP: is this a clickable map?
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USEMAP: name of the map definition
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LOWSRC: a version of the picture that isn't such a big file
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NATURALSIZEFLAG: meaningless
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NOSAVE: meaningless
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DYNSRC: play a movie file
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CONTROLS: show the buttons which control the movie
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LOOP = INFINITE | -1 | # of loops
how many times to loop the movie
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START = FILEOPEN | MOUSEOVER
when to start playing the movie
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onLoad: script to runs after the image is downloaded
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SUPPRESS = TRUE | FALSE
Don't show icons of images that haven't downloaded yet |
<INPUT ...> | TYPE = TEXT | CHECKBOX | RADIO | PASSWORD | HIDDEN | SUBMIT | RESET | BUTTON | FILE | IMAGE
what type of field
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NAME: name of this form field
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VALUE: initial or only value of this field
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SIZE: how wide the text field should be
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MAXLENGTH: maximum number of characters
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CHECKED: check this checkbox or radio button
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BORDER: border around image
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SRC: URL of image
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ALT: text to show if you don't show the picture
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LOWSRC: a version of the picture that isn't such a big file
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WIDTH: width of image
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HEIGHT: height of image
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ALIGN = LEFT | RIGHT | TOP | TEXTTOP | MIDDLE | ABSMIDDLE | CENTER | BOTTOM | ABSBOTTOM | BASELINE
how text should flow around the picture
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VSPACE: vertical distance between the picture and the text
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HSPACE: horizontal distance between the picture and the text
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READONLY: the value of this field cannot be changed
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DISABLED: don't let the user do anything with this field
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ACCESSKEY
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TABINDEX: tab order
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LANGUAGE = "JavaScript" | "JavaScript1.1" | "JSCRIPT" | "VBScript" | "VBS" | other language
scripting language to use
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AUTOCOMPLETE = ON | OFF
If the browser should use autocompletion for the field |
onClick: when the user clicks here
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onChange: when this field is changed
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onFocus: when this field gets the focus
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onBlur: when this field loses the focus
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onKeyPress: script to run when a key is pressed
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onKeyUp: script for when a key goes up while the field has the focus
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onKeyDown: script for when a key goes down while the field has the focus
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<INS> Inserted<DEL> | indicates that the text has been deleted from the current revision of the document. |
<ISINDEX ...> | PROMPT: prompt string to show before the text entry area
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ACTION: the CGI to call |
<KBD> | indicates characters that should be typed in at a keyboard. |
<LABEL ...> | FOR: form element for which this is a label |
<LEGEND ...> | ALIGN = RIGHT | CENTER | LEFT |
<LI ...> List Item | TYPE = DISC | CIRCLE | SQUARE | 1 | A | a | I | i
type of bullet or numeral
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VALUE: where to continue counting |
<LINK ...> | REL: relationship to this page
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REV: reverse relationship to this page
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HREF: URL of related document
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TITLE: suggested title
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MEDIA = SCREEN | PRINT | PROJECTION | AURAL | BRAILLE | ALL | other media
What media type the link applies to
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TYPE: MIME type of linked resource |
<LISTING> | This tag is officially deprecated. That means that this tag is being phased out, and it is strongly suggested that you not use it. |
<MAP ...> | NAME: name of this map |
<MARQUEE ...> | WIDTH: how wide the marquee is
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HEIGHT: how tall the marquee is
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DIRECTION = LEFT | RIGHT
which direction the marquee should scroll
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BEHAVIOR = SCROLL | SLIDE | ALTERNATE
what type of scrolling
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SCROLLDELAY: how long to delay between each jump
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SCROLLAMOUNT: how far to jump
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LOOP = INFINITE | number of loops
how many times to loop
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BGCOLOR: background color
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HSPACE: horizontal space around the marquee
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VSPACE: vertical space around the marquee |
<META ...> | NAME = KEYWORDS | DESCRIPTION | REFRESH | many others
The pupose of this META tag
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HTTP-EQUIV: Name of the pretend HTTP header
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CONTENT: Metainformation content |
<MULTICOL ...> | COLS: how many columns
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GUTTER: space between columns
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WIDTH: width of a single column |
<NOBR> | No Break - prevents a carriage return from occurring. |
<NOEMBED> | provides content for browsers that do not support embedded objects. |
<NOFRAMES> | holds text that should be displayed for people who don't have frames. |
<NOSCRIPT> | is for content that should only be rendered (i.e. displayed) if the browser does not use JavaScript or other scripting languages. |
<OL ...> Ordered List | TYPE = 1 | A | a | I | i
type of numerals
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START: where to start counting |
<OPTION ...> | VALUE: what's the value if this option is chosen
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SELECTED: this option is selected by default |
<P ...> Paragraph | ALIGN = LEFT | CENTER | RIGHT | JUSTIFY
alignment of text within the paragraph
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CLEAR = LEFT | RIGHT | ALL | BOTH
move past picture and other objects |
<PARAM ...> Parameter | NAME: name of the parameter
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VALUE: value of the parameter |
<PLAINTEXT> | causes all remaining text in the document to be rendered exactly as it was typed in, including all tags and even the document tags. |
<PRE ...> | marks the text as "preformatted" -- all the spaces and carriage returns are rendered exactly as you type them. |
<S> | Strikeout - <s> / <strike> - Both tags cause a line (a "strikeout") to be drawn through the text. |
<SAMP> | Sample - indicates text which is an example of something. |
<SCRIPT ...> | TYPE = "text/javascript" | "text/vbscript" | other scripting language
Which scripting language to use
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SRC: External source for script
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DEFER: Continue loading page while downloading script
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LANGUAGE = JAVASCRIPT | LIVESCRIPT | VBSCRIPT | other
Deprecated indicator of language
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FOR: object for which this script is an event handler
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EVENT: the event this script handles |
<SELECT ...> | NAME: name of this form element
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MULTIPLE: allow more than one choice
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SIZE: how many options to show
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READONLY: don't let the user change the value of this field
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DISABLED: don't let the user do anything with this field
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LANGUAGE = "JavaScript" | "JavaScript1.1" | "VBScript" | other language
scripting language to use
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TABINDEX: tab order
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onChange: what to do when a new option is selected
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onFocus: script to run when this field gets the focus
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onBlur: script to run when this field loses the focus |
<SMALL> | Makes text small. |
<SOUND ...> | A rare example of a "Mosaic Only" tag. <SOUND ...> works just like <BGSOUND ...>. Use <BGSOUND ...> |
<SPACER ...> | TYPE = HORIZONTAL | VERTICAL | BLOCK
what type of space is this
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ALIGN = LEFT | RIGHT
align left or right
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SIZE: how tall or wide
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WIDTH: how wide
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HEIGHT: how tall |
<SPAN ...> | |
<STRIKE> | Strikeout - <s> / <strike> - Both tags cause a line (a "strikeout") to be drawn through the text. |
<STRONG> | Indicates text which should be more forceful than surrounding text |
<STYLE ...> | TYPE: style language
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MEDIA: type of media this syle applies to |
<SUB> | sets the text as subscripts. |
<SUP> | sets the text as subscripts. |
<TABLE ...> | BORDER: size of border around the table
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CELLPADDING: space between the edge of a cell and the contents
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CELLSPACING: space between cells
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WIDTH: width of the table as a whole
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BGCOLOR: color of the background
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BACKGROUND: picture to use as background
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ALIGN = LEFT | RIGHT
alignment of table to surrounding text
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HSPACE: horizontal space between table and surrounding text
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VSPACE: vertical space between table and surrounding text
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HEIGHT: height of the table as a whole
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FRAME = VOID | BOX | BORDER | ABOVE | BELOW | LHS | RHS | HSIDES | VSIDES
parts of outside border that are visible
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RULES = NONE | ALL | COLS | ROWS | GROUPS
if there should be internal borders
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BORDERCOLOR: color of border around the table
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BORDERCOLORLIGHT: color of "light" part of border around the table
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BORDERCOLORDARK: color of "dark" part of border around the table
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SUMMARY: Summary of the purpose of the table |
<TBODY ...> | Table Body Section - <THEAD ...>, <TBODY ...>, and <TFOOT ...> establish groups of rows. <THEAD ...> indicates that a group of rows are the header rows at the top of the table. <TBODY ...> indicates that a group of rows are body rows. <TFOOT ...> indicates that a group of rows are the footer rows at the bottom of the table. |
<TD ...> Table Data | ALIGN = LEFT | CENTER | MIDDLE | RIGHT
horizontal alignment of cell contents
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VALIGN = TOP | MIDDLE | CENTER | BOTTOM | BASELINE
vertical alignment of cell contents
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WIDTH: width of cell
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HEIGHT: height of cell
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COLSPAN: number of columns to cover
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ROWSPAN: number of rows to cover
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NOWRAP: don't word wrap
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BGCOLOR: color of the background
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BORDERCOLOR: color of border around the table
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BORDERCOLORDARK: color of "dark" part of border around the table
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BORDERCOLORLIGHT: color of "light" part of border around the table
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BACKGROUND: picture to use as background |
<TEXTAREA ...> | NAME: name of this form field
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COLS: how many characters wide
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ROWS: how many rows
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WRAP = SOFT | HARD | OFF
how to wrap the text
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READONLY: don't let the user change the contents of the field
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DISABLED: don't let the user do anything with this field
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TABINDEX: tab order
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LANGUAGE = "JavaScript" | "JavaScript1.1" | "VBScript" | other language
scripting language
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onChange: Script to run when the user has changed the textarea
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onKeyPress: script to run when a key is pressed |
<TH ...> | Table Header |
<THEAD ...> | Table Header Section |
<TITLE> | states the title of the document. |
<TR ...> Table Row | ALIGN = LEFT | CENTER | RIGHT
horizontal alignment of cell contents
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HALIGN = LEFT | CENTER | RIGHT
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VALIGN = TOP | MIDDLE | BOTTOM | BASELINE
vertical alignment of cell contents
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BGCOLOR: background color
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BACKGROUND: background image
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BORDERCOLOR: color of border around each cell
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BORDERCOLORLIGHT: color of "light" part of border around each cell
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BORDERCOLORDARK: color of "dark" part of border around each cell |
<TT> | produces fixed width text. |
<U> | Underline |
<UL ...> Unordered List | TYPE = DISC | CIRCLE | SQUARE
type of bullets |
<VAR> | indicates a variable from a computer program. |
<WBR> | is for the situation where you have used <NOBR> to prevent line breaks in a section of text, and then you want to say "but you can break HERE if you want". |
<XMP> | indicates a block of text where all HTML tags are ignored. |