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HTML cheat sheet
(+ a few useful links)
Basics of HTML coding
This is just a cheat sheet for various tags used while using HTML codes for layouts, texts or pages
For more info on how to use HTML or CSS I recommend looking elsewhere
This link has been useful when I started simple HTML guide
Basic HTML Structure
- To create an HTML document: <html> </html>
- To set the title of your doc. and non displayed info: <head> </head>
- To set the visible part of your doc.: <body> </body>
- To set the title of your page: <title> </title>
Example of how it should look
<html>
<head>
<title> your title </title>
</head>
<body>
your content
</body>
</html>
Tags for body attributes
- Set the background colour (?=colour name or hex value): <body bgcolor=?>
- Set the background image: <body background="url">
- Set text colour (?=colour name or hex value): <body text=?>
- Set colour of links (?=colour name or hex value): <body link=?>
- Set colour of visited links (?=colours name or hex value): <body vlink=?>
- Set colour of active link (while hovering mouse) (?=colour name or hex value): <body alink=?>
Tags for images
- Add an image: <img src="url" />
- Align image left/center/right/bottom/top/middle: <img src="url" align=?>
- Images border: <img src="url" border=?>
- Set height of image in pixel: <img src="url" height=?>
- Set width of image in pixel: <img src="url" width=?>
- Set alternative text: <img src="url" alt=?>
HTML tags for text / blog
- Create headlines: <h1> </h1> -> <h6> </h6> (h1=largest, h6=smallest)
- Italic: <i> </i> or <em> </em>
- Bold: <b> </b> or <strong> </strong>
- Underline text: <u> </u>
- Strike out: <strike> </strike>
- Tipewritter style text: <tt> </tt>
- Create a paragraph: <p> </p>
- Line break: <br>
- Create a link to another page: <a href="url" link name </a>
Special characters
- < less than symbol: <
- > greater than symbol: >
- & ampersand or "and": &
- " quotation mark: "
- Copyright symbol: ©
- Trademark symbol: &trade
- Space:
Useful links
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