Simple HTML Tags

<HR> 		     Horizontal Rule tag draws a horizontal line.


Note the ALIGN attributes in the <HR> tags:

<HR ALIGN=center>    This tag centers the horizontal line.

<HR ALIGN=left>	     This tag places the line over to the left.

<HR ALIGN=right>     This tag places the line over to the right.



<BR>                 This tag is a line break and takes the text down one line.

<CENTER>	     This tag begins centering.

</CENTER>	     This tag ends centering

<B>		     This tag begins bold print. 

</B>		     This tag ends bold print.

<U>		     This tag begins underlining. 

</U>		     This tag ends underlining.

<H1>

Very Large Bold Print

</H1>

<H2>

Large bold print

</H2>

<H3>

Bold print larger than <H4>

</H3>

<H4>

Bold print slightly larger than normal print

</H4>

<H5>

Bold print a little smaller than normal print

</H5>

<H6>

Bold print smaller than normal print

</H6>

<I>Italic style </I>

<EM>Text to be emphasized</EM>	These tags are for emphasized text. Appearance of the emphasized text depends on the browser and may be underlined, bold, and/or italicized.

<STRONG>Text to be strongly emphasized</STRONG>	These tags strongly emphasize text; appearance depends on the browser.

<CITE>

Name of reference you are citing goes here.

</CITE>

<P> This tag opens a paragraph.

Write your paragraphs inside the <P> and </P> tags. The <P> tag takes the text down two lines. These tags are somethimes used even when there is just a sentence, a link, or a graphic. The closing </P> tag is needed for some browsers, but it is not needed for most browsers. Using the closing </P> tag assures all browsers will display your web pages just the way you want them.

</P> This tag closes a paragraph.

<PRE>		   This tag allows you to put in preformatted text...


                                Like when you've written some prose,
                                        
                                        And you want it to stay
                                        
                                The way you have written it,

                                        Because it's that way.

</PRE>		    This tag ends preformatted text.

<OL>This tag begins an ordered (numbered) list.


	<LI>List first item here.</LI>
	<LI>List item two next.</LI>
	<LI>List item three here.</LI>
	<LI>List the next item, etc.</LI>

</OL>This tag ends an ordered (numbered) list.


<UL>This tag begins an unordered list (with bullets).

	<LI>List first item here.</LI>
	<LI>List item two next.</LI>
	<LI>List item three here.</LI>
	<LI>List the next item, etc.</LI>

</UL>This tag ends an unordered list (with bullets).



A menu list is like an unordered list with bullets, except the spacing between lines is closer.

<MENU>		    This tag begins a menu list.

	<LI>List first item here.</LI>
	<LI>List item two next.</LI>
	<LI>List item three here.</LI>
	<LI>List the next item, etc.</LI>

</MENU>		    This tag ends a menu list.



<BLOCKQUOTE>		        This tag begins BLOCKQUOTE.
BLOCKQUOTE is used to indent entire blocks of text.  This is
usually when the text is a long quotation.  However, it can be
used whenever you want the text indented. </BLOCKQUOTE>			This tag ends BLOCKQUOTE.



<A HREF="mailto:name@address">text</A>		    Tag to an e-mail address.

<!Write comments here. > This tag allows you to write comments you can see in your HTML text document (Simple Text, Note Pad, etc.) that will not normally be seen in the brower. Comments may be seen when viewing the source code.

To view the source code of a web page click on the View Menu and drag down to Source Document. When you view the HTML text document for that page you can get an idea of how various tags are utilized.

HTML Tutorial Table of Contents
Beginning your HTML Document/ Simple HTML Tags
Simple Anchors & Links/ The Hexadecimal System/ Wallpaper & Colors
Gathering Graphics for Your Web Page / Adding Graphics & Graphic Links / Tables / Forms
Frames/ Image Maps