ipl Learning HTML

Quick Reference

Basic Tags

Document Type beginning and end of HTML file
Header descriptive info about the document
Styleindicates internal style sheet for CSS
Title appears in the browser title bar
Body contains contents of what will be displayed
Spanmakes an invisible containter; great for applying CSS to small amounts of text
Divmakes an invisible container; great for applying CSS to large amounts of text, images, or anything inside the body tags

Format Tags


Line Break start a new line

Paragraph starts a new line and skips a line
  Non-breaking Space puts a single blank space

Horizontal Rule makes a horizontal line
Center centers text, images, etc. on line
Strong makes text bold
Emphasis makes text in italics
style="text-align: center;">?> Centerinline style CSS for use with many differnet HTML tags for centering text, images, etc. on a line

Fonts and Text Styles

Font Size changes font size, ranging from 1-7
Font Face changes text style, use face name
Font Color changes text color, use color name or color code
Font Size CSS inline style for changing font size; use px, em, or word values
Font Face CSS inline style for changing text style; use face name
Font Color CSS inline style for chaning font color; use color code

Links and Images

makes a link to another page, use URL or filename
places an image on the page, use filename
change dimensions of Image
use between head tags when using an external style sheet for CSS

Background

Changes color of background, use color code
Uses image for background, use filename
inline style CSS for changing color of background, use color code

This resource originally created by Deborah Dunk.
Revised and edited by Michael Galloway in 2005 & in 2006.