SOME BASIC HTML TAGS

Code is not case sensitive - may be either upper or lower case or even mixed.
<> </> denotes brackets -most commands ar enclosed in brackets.
<> Beginning bracket.
</> Closure/ending bracket.

Text formating
<B> ... </B> - bolding
<I> ... </I> - italics
<STRONG> ... </STRONG> - similar to bold
<P> ... </P> - To indicate paragraphs
<BR> - defines line break (new line)
<CENTER> ... </CENTER> - defines center alignment
<FONT SIZE=6> ... </FONT> - defines font size as being point size 6.
<FONT SIZE=+1> ... </FONT> - adds additional point size to default font size - may go from +1 to +7
<FONT COLOR="00FFFF">...</FONT> - defines font color for individual section of text.
<FONT SIZE=... COLOR=...> ... </FONT> - defines size and color of text for individual section.

Headers or Headline Commands
<H1> ... </H1>
<H2> ... </H2>
<H3> ... </H3>
<H4> ... </H4>
<H5> ... </H5>
<H6> ... </H6>
H1 is the largest and H6 is the smallest.

Horizontal Rules
<HR> - defines horizotal rule (line across page) default is one pixel.
<HR SIZE=n WIDTH=n/p%> Specify the thickness of the rule with the SIZE attribute, which takes an integer number n of pixels. The width of the rule can be specified in number n of pixels or as a percentage p% of the currently available window width, using the WIDTH attribute.  Don't forget that percentage values must be quoted!

Background color
<BODY BGROUND="FFFF00" TEXT="8C1717" LINK="00FFFF" VLINK=000FFF"> - defines background bground color, text color, link color, and visited link vlink color - they are may be different.
<BODY BACKGROUND="filename"> - allows image (in jpeg or gif) format to be placed as background on page. It will automatically tile itself to file available space.

Links
<A HREF ... To be continue


If you want to have more definitionS of the existing HTML tags, download the Ms Windows help version to your local drive and open it to find out the tags available in HTML 3.2.