HTML Tags and Descriptions

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/DTD/xhtml1/xhtml1-transitonal.dtd">
<html>   </html> Begins and ends all web pages
<head> </head> Page information- Title, Meta tags, CSS, Javascripts
<title> </title> Displays page name on the browser's title bar
<body> </body> Displays text, images, and animation for viewer
<!--html comment tag --> Information not displayed on the page

HTML / XHTML Body Elements (tags)

<h#>  </h#> Headings display font sizes from h1 to h6
<p>  </p> Block level tag to display text;
<blockquote>   </blockquote> Indents text left and right margins
<ul> </ul>   <li>   </li> Unordered List  List Items
<ol> </ol>   <li>   </li> Ordered List  List Items
<dl> </dl>     <dt>  </dt>
<dd> </dd>
Definition List Definition Term   Definition Description
Text Formatting em, b, strong, i, cite( use CSS)
<Font>   </Font>font name, size and color (use CSS)

Dividers, Web Color, Anchors and Images

Line Break  <br /> Line break; <br clear="all">
Horizontal Rule   <hr /> Displays a line with attributes; use CSS borders
Hex Color Apply background and font colors. #ffcccc
Anchors   <a > </a > Links web pages and to mailboxes.
Images   <img / > Displays images in gif & jpg file formats.

Web Design with XHTML Part I
Doris Cuffey, Instructor