Quick HTML tags reference
The following table lists HTML tags (in alphabetical order) with:
- HTML tag name
- description of the HTML tag
- indication whether or not closing tag is required
- attributes of each HTML tag
| Table 1 HTML Tags – Quick Reference | ||||
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| HTML Tag | Tag Name | Description | Closing Tag | Attributes |
| <!–HTML comment text-> | Comment | Identifies sections of HTML code | No | N/A |
| <a> | Anchor | Creates hypertext links | Yes | target, href, name |
| <address> | Address | Displays text in italics | Yes | style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <applet> | Applet | Runs Java applets | Yes | alt, code, align, width, height, codebase, hspace, vspace |
| <area> | Area | Creates a clickable area (also known as hotspot) on an imagemap | No | coords, href, nohref, shape |
| <B> | Bold | Make text bold | Yes | style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <blockquote> | Block quote | Indents text from both left and right margins | Yes | cite, style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <body> | Body | Defines the body of an HTML document | Yes | backGround, bgColor, aLink, vLink, text |
| <br> | Line break | Ends the current line. | No | clear, style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <caption> | Caption | creates a caption for an HTML table | Yes | align, style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <center> | Center | Centers text | Yes | align, style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <cite> | Citation | Used for indicating a source used as a citation | Yes | align, style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <code> | Code | Displays text in a fixed width font | Yes | align, style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <div> | Logical division | Divides an HTML document into logical sections | Yes | align, style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <dl> | Definition list | Creates a definition list | Yes | align, style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <dt> | Definition term | Creates a definition list term | Yes | style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <embed> | Embed | inserts media files (i.e, background sounds) into web pages | No | src, autostart, loop, volume, width, height |
| <font> | Font | sets font size, color, and face | Yes | size, color, face |
| <form> | Form | Creates a form for a user to enter data | Yes | action, method, target, style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <frame> | Frame | Defines a frame (window) | No | src, name, marginwidth, marginheight, scrolling, noresize |
| <frameset> | Frameset | Defines the frameset | Yes | rows, cols, border |
| <h1> | Heading level 1 | Creates a first-level heading | Yes | align, style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <h2> | Heading level 2 | Creates a second-level heading | Yes | align, style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <h3> | Heading level 3 | Creates a third-level heading | Yes | align, style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <h4> | Heading level 4 | Creates a fourth-level heading | Yes | align, style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <h5> | Heading level 5 | Creates a fifth-level heading | Yes | align, style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <h6> | Heading level 6 | Creates a sixth-level heading | Yes | align, style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <head> | Head or header | Defines head section of an HTML document | Yes | lang, dir |
| <hr> | Horizontal rule | Creates a horizontal line across a web page | No | size, width, align, noshade, align, style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <html> | HTML | Contains the head and body section of an HTML document (web page) | Yes | lang, dir |
| <i> | Italic | Makes text italic | Yes | style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <img> | Inline image | Inserts an inline image into an HTMl document | No | src, height, width, alt, title, border, align, hspace, vspace |
| <input> | Form input | Creates form fields such as text boxes, check boxes, submit button, and reset button | No | type, value, name, size, maxlength, checked, align, accept, readonly, style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <lh> | List heading | Creates a list heading | Yes | type, value, style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <li> | List item | Creates a list item | Yes | type, value, style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <link> | Link | Creates hyperlinks to documents or files, including style sheets | No | rel, rev, href, target, type, media, charset, style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <map> | Map | Used with a client-side imagemap | Yes | name, style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <meta> | Meta | Describes information about an HTML document | No | name, content, http-equiv, scheme, lang, dir |
| <ol> | Ordered list | Creates an ordered list | Yes | type, style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <option> | Option | Defines an option item for a selction list | Yes | value, selected, style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <p> | Paragraph | Creates a paragraph | Yes | width, style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <pre> | Preformatted text | Creates a section of preformatted text | Yes | width, style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <script> | Script | Specifies the scripting language used in the HTML document | Yes | language |
| <select> | Form select | Creates a selction menu in an HTML form | Yes | name, size, disabled, multiple, style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <strike> | Strike-through | Draws a line through text | Yes | style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <sub> | Subscript | Creates a subscripted text | Yes | style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <sup> | Superscript | Creates a superscript text | Yes | style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <table> | Table | Creates a table in an HTML document | Yes | align, width, cellpadding, cellspacing, border, bgcolor, style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <td> | Table data | Creates a column or cell in a table | Yes | bgcolor, rowspan, colspan, nowrap, valign, width, height, style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <textarea> | Form text area | Creates a text area in form | Yes | name, rows, cols, disabled, readonly, style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <th> | Table heading | Creates a cell as a table heading (displays text as centered and bold) | Yes | bgcolor, rowspan, style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <title> | Title | Creates HTML document’s title (displayed at the top of the browser window) | Yes | lang, dir |
| <tr> | Table row | Creates a table row | Yes | bgcolor, align, valign, style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <u> | Underlined | Underlines text | Yes | style, id, class, lang, dir, title |
| <ul> | Unordered list | Creates an unordered list | Yes | style, id, class, lang, dir, title |