XHTML Document
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>xyz</title> <meta name="description" content="xyz" /> <meta name="keywords" content="xyz, xyz" /> </head> <body> </body> </html>
TEXT
<hl></hl> First headline <h6></h6> Smallest headline <b></b> Bold text <em></em> Emphasize <strong></strong> Emphasize <i></i> Italic <u></u> Underline <s></s> Strikethrough <tt></tt> Teletype <pre></pre> Preformatted text - preserves spacing <cite></cite> Citation
LINKS
<a href="URL"></a> A hyperlink <a href="mailto:EMAIL"></a> A mailto link <a name="XYZ"></a> A target anchor within a document <a href="#XYZ"></a> Links to anchor within document <a href="URL" target="_blank"></a> Open in new window
FORMATTING
<p></p> Paragraph <p align="left"> Paragraph align left, right, center <br /> Inserts a line break <ol></ol> Numbered list <ul></ul> Bulleted list <li></li> List item <div align="left"></div> Block with left align <span></span> Inline styling <blockquote></blockquote> Indents text <img src="URL" /> Image <img align="left" /> Aligns image left, right, center, bottom, top, middle <img border="1" /> Border width <hr /> Horizontal rule <hr size="2" width="50%" /> Rule height and width <hr noshade /> Rule without a shadow
TABLES
<table></table> Table <table border="1"> Width of border <table cellspacing="1"> Space between table cells <table cellpadding="1"> Cell's inner padding <table width="50%"> Table width - pixels or percentage <tr></tr> Table row <td></td> Row cell <th></th> Row header <tr align="left"> Alignment – left, right, center <td align="left"> Alignment – left, right, center <tr valign="top"> Vertical alignment - top, bottom, middle <td valign="top"> Vertical alignment - top, bottom, middle <td colspan="2"> Number of columns cell spans <td rowspan="2"> Number of rows cell spans <td nowrap> Stop line breaks
FORMS
<form action="index.htm" method="post"></form> Create form with action and method <select multiple name="NAME" size="5"></select> Scrolling menu <select name="NAME"></select> Pulldown menu <option value="x" selected="selected"></option> Menu item with value and first selected <textarea name="NAME" cols="45" rows="5"></textarea> Text box area - columns=width, rows=height <input type=text name="NAME" size=15 value="x"> Text area - size=length in characters <input type="checkbox" name="NAME" value="x" checked="checked" /> Checkbox. Already checked <input type="radio" name="NAME" value="x"> Radio button <input type="submit" value="NAME"> Submit button <input type="image" name="NAME" src="img.gif"> Submit button using an image <input type="reset"> Reset button
HTML SPECIAL CHARACTERS
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