HTML Summary

An HTML document is plain ASCII text marked up with various tags. Some of the tags come in pairs, eg <B> and </B> for bold text, while other occur singly, eg <P> for paragraph breaks. Note carefully that browsers ignore your white spaces, including line ends, so you have to put <P> for paragraph breaks. However, headings <H1></H1> (the biggest) to <H6></H6> get put on lines by themselves. If you have text that is in a set format, eg program code, then placing it within <PRE> </PRE> preformatted tags then preserves the white space and line breaks.

An HTML document should be enclosed within <HTML> </HTML> tags with a header and body in between, but these tags can be missed out. Note that the various lists can be nested.

The <A> tag provides a hypertext link to another document; it can also be another type of file, eg an audio WAV or video clip. It is best to stick to common formats to ensure that users will have the appropriate viewers. Inline images in GIF format are almost always supported. To jump within a document then set up an anchor (eg <A NAME=chap01></A>) and do a link to that name preceded by a # character (eg <A HREF=#chap01> Chapter 1 </A>).

You show a left angle bracket character with the four characters "&lt;". Similarly "&gt"; is ">", "&amp;" is "&", and you can do umlauts and other characters with other special sequences. 

Comment				<! ... >
HTML document			<HTML> ... </HTML>
Header				<HEAD> ... </HEAD>
Body				<BODY> ... </BODY>
Title				<TITLE> ... </TITLE>
Headings 1-6			<Hn> ... </Hn>
Paragraph break			<P>
Horizontal rule			<HR>
Hypertext link			<A HREF=url> Link name </A>
Anchor				<A NAME=anchor> anchor text </A>
Inline image			<IMG [ALIGN=TOP] SRC=file.GIF >
Unnumbered list			<UL> {<LI> ...} </UL>
Numbered list			<OL> {<LI> ...} </OL>
Descriptive list		<DL> {<DT> ... <DD> ...} </DL>
Preformatted text		<PRE> ... </PRE>
Italics, Bold, Underline	<I></I> <B></B> <U></U>
Fixed width			<CODE></CODE>
Others fonts			<ADDRESS></ADDRESS> <BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>
				<EM></EM> <CITE></CITE> <VAR></VAR>
				<TT></TT> <SAMP></SAMP> <KBD></KBD>
[] optional
{} optionally repeated
Additional tags are described in the Form HTML and <ISINDEX> pages. Image maps are specified as anchors.
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