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| HTML | the way in which computers communicate across the world wide web. It consists of many tags that allow writers to mark-up text documents so that they can be viewed by others using web browsers. |
| Web Browsers | the applications that allow one to view HTML documents from either your own computer or from any other computer connected to the internet. |
| Tags | the commands that give HTML documents their functionality. They consist of commands placed within < and >. Some tags work by placing a start and stop tag at each end of the desired text |
| Containers | refer to the area enclosed by <start> and </stop> tags where the commands take effect. |
| Pixels | a method of measurement used in the computer world. Your computer screen's resolution is measured in them. |
| Relative and Absolute Links | styles of links that one finds connecting a web page to other pages, files, etc. |
| <html> | begins and ends web document,tells the browser that the document is in HTML |
| <head> | header, used after html tag |
| <title> | located within header container |
| <body> | creates the body of the document |
| background="sample.jpg" | background picture |
| bgcolor="color" | background color |
| text="color" | text color |
| alink="color" | active link color |
| vlink="color" | visited link |
| bgproperties | when equal to "fixed", bacground does not scroll |
| topmargin | sets height of top margin |
| leftmargin | sets width of left margin(not used in netscape) |
| <address> | place your name and date of page creation within at bottom of page |
| <p> | place at the end of a paragraph, it will then skip a line for the next paragraph |
| <align=left,right,center> | alignment |
| <br> | line break, it will begin again on the next line |
| <nobr> | no line breaks are allowed to occur within the container |
| <h1> | heading style, choose from sizes 1(largest)-6(smallest) |
| <hr> | horizontal line |
| <hr width=> | in percentages or pixels |
| <hr size=> | thickness, in pixels |
| <hr color="color"> | line color |
| <i> | -italics |
| <b> | bold |
| <u> | underline |
| <blockquote> | formatted for quoted text |
| <strike> | strikethrough style |
| <font face="font name"> | to select specific font |
| <font color="color"> | font color |
| <base font> | the font for the document, can use face,size and color with it |
| <img src="filename"> | Places an image within your documen |
| <img align=top,middle,bottom | align text with picture's top, middle, or bottom |
| <img align=left,right | place picture on left or right and wrap text around it |
| <img width,height= | in pixels or percentage, dimensions of picture can be altered |
| <img alt=> | escription of the picture so that text-only browsers know what it is |
| <img border=> | in pixels, border around the picture |
| <img vspace,hspace=> | in pixels, empty space around picture |
| <a href="http://serendip.brynmawr.com/text.html">text link</a> | text link, absolute link |
| <a href="text.html">text link</a | text link, relative link |
| <a href="http://serendip.brynmawr.com"><img src="sample.jpg"></a> | graphic link |
| <a href="mailto:me@serendip.brynmawr.edu"></a> | link to email |
| <ol></ol> | ordered lists |
| <li></li> | list item |
| <lh></lh> | -list header |
| <ul></ul> | unordered list |
| <table></table> | table tag |
| <table border= | in pixels |
| <table align=left, right, center | alignment of data within the cells |
| <table valign=top, middle, bottom | vertical alignment of data within the cells |
| <table width/height= | in pixels, of table or individual cells |
| <table cellpadding/cellspacing= | in pixels, adds space within cell/border |
| <table bordercolor/bgcolor="color" | will change table, row, or cell border/background color, use with td, th, and tr tags |
| <table rowspan/colspan | allows one cell to occupy more than one "cellblock" |
| <th></th> | table header within the cells-can use valign=top/middle/bottom and align=left/right/center |
| <td></td> | table data within the cells-can use valign=top/middle/bottom and align=left/right/center |
| <tr></tr> | table row |
| <caption></caption> | places a caption, either above or below <table align=top/bottom> |
