COMMON HTML TAGS

"Tags" tell the Internet how your document should look. Every visual aspect and piece of text on a page is preceded and followed by a tag.

The tag is always enclosed in these symbols: < >.
The tag before the function is the opening tag.
The closing tag, which ends the function of the tag, always repeats the format of the opening tag and adds a forward slash: </ >. If the forward slash is left out, the function doesn't end. So if you want a single word to be bold, you type <B> immediately before the word and </B> immediately after, but if the / is missing, your words will continue to be bold.

The first two columns show the opening and closing tags for typical functions. Note that just a few tags do not have a closing tag.
The Description column tells what the tag does.
The Attribute column shows language that is added INSIDE another tag to add functions where that tag is in effect. For example, the BODY tag can contain the background color, thus: <BODY BGCOLOR="BLUE">. The end tag </BODY> does not have to contain the attribute. The background color will be in effect throughout the document.
In this table the attributes that can be placed inside a given tag are listed following that tag.

Opening Tag	Closing Tag	Attribute	Description
<HTML>	</HTML>		Identifies document as HTML
<HEAD>	</HEAD>		Document Head contains Title Tag
<TITLE>	</TITLE>		Title of Document
<BODY>	</BODY>		Contents of Document

Opening Tag	Closing Tag	Attribute	Description
<BODY>	</BODY>		Contents of Document
		BGCOLOR="#color code"	Background Color
		BACKGROUND="... .gif "	Background Image
		TEXT="#color code"	Text Color
<CENTER>	</CENTER>		Centers Text and Images
<H1> to <H6>	</H1>to</H6>		Heading
		ALIGN="Left, Center, Right"	Align Text
<BASEFONT SIZE="1 to7">			Document Font Size
<P>	</P>		New Paragraph
		ALIGN="Left, Center, Right"	Align Text
<BR>			Line Break
<HR>			Horizontal Rule
		ALIGN="Left, Center, Right"	Align Text
		SIZE = "number"	Thickness of Horizontal Rule
		WIDTH = "number %"	% of Document to Span
		NOSHADE	Removes Shading

Opening Tag	Closing Tag	Attribute	Description
<BODY>	</BODY>		Contents of Document
		LINK="#color code"	Unvisited Link Color
		VLINK="#color code"	Visited Link Color
<A HREF = "Item Location">	</A>		Destination of Link
<A NAME = "Label">	</A>		Moves to Other Section of Web Page

Opening Tag	Closing Tag	Attribute	Description
<IMG SRC ="Image Location">			Imports Image
		ALIGN="Left, Right"	Align Image & Text Wrap
		ALIGN="Top, Middle, Bottom"	Align Text with Image
		ALT	Alternative Text
		BORDER	Puts Border around Image
		WIDTH	Width of Image in Pixels
		HEIGHT	Height of Image in Pixels
		HSPACE	Amount of Horizontal Space around Image
		VSPACE	Amount of Vertical Space around Image
<BR CLEAR =Left, Right, All>			Stops Text from Wrapping

Opening Tag	Closing Tag	Attribute	Description
<TABLE>	</TABLE>		Adds Table
		BORDER="number"	Border for Rows & Columns
		CELLPADDING	Thickness of Cell Wall
		CELLSPACING	Spacing between Border and Cell Contents
		BGCOLOR	Background Color of Cells
<TR>	</TR>		Table Row (Start & End)
		ALIGN="Left, Center, Right"	Aligns Text in Row Horizontally
		ALIGN="Top, Middle, Bottom"	Aligns Text in Row Vertically
<TD>	</TD>		Defines Data Cell
		COLSPAN="number"	Spans Cells across Column
		ROWSPAN="number"	Spans Cells across Row
		ALIGN	Alignment in Cell
<TH>	</TH>		Header Cell in Table
		COLSPAN="number"	Spans Cells across Column
		ROWSPAN="number"	Spans Cells across Row
		ALIGN	Alignment in Cell
<CAPTION>	</CAPTION>		Text outside Table
		ALIGN="Top, Bottom"	Aligns Caption at Top or Bottom