HTML <TAG> Dictionary

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Creates a comment into your html that will not be seen on the page.

Example:

This tag is used to add any information that you want to the page without having it being seen on the actual page. Many people use this tag to write notes or add warnings (such as copyright notices).

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<a href>

Creates a link to another page, link to another site or a link to another spot on the same page.

Examples:
<a href="newpage.html">New Page</a> or
<a href="newpage.html TARGET="Frame2">New Page</a> or
<a href="#link">New Link</a> or
<a href="newlink.html#link">New Link</a> or
<a href="http://www.andyart.com/">Andy's Art Attack!</a> or
<a href="http://www.andyart.com/"><IMG SRC="picture.gif"></a>

1) The first example creates a link to newpage.htm with the words "New Page" (which will be underlined)
2) This example will load the new page into "Frame2" if you are using frames.
3) This example creates a link to an anchor on the same page.
4) This example creates a link to an anchor point on the newlink.htm page.
5) This example creates a link to another site.
6) This example uses a picture to link to another site, instead of words.

You may create a link by two things: words or images. Any words that are between the tags will be underlined and create a link to the stated page. Any image that is between the tags will create the link to the stated page.

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<a name>

Creates an anchor point to jump to a certian part of a page.

Example: <a name="link"></a>

After creating your A HREF link, you need to make one of these anchor points. The word "link" in this example, can be any name that you want it to be as long as it is the same name you used in your A HREF tag.

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<b>

Makes the text inside of the tags, to be bolded.

Example: <b>Bold this text!</b>

If you want to bring attention to a part of text, then just bold it!.

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<basefont>

This sets the default size, color, and font for the entire page.

Example: <basefont ="Arial" size=-1>

You place this tag in the heading of your html document, and it defines the default text font & size. If there are any other modifications to text in the document using the FONT tag, these changes will be taken off of the basefont settings.

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<big>

Makes the text one size bigger than the base font.

Example: <big>This is bigger than before!</big>

If you want to bring attention to a part of text, then just make it bigger!

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<blink>

Makes the text contained in the tag blink in regular intervals.

Example: <blink>Make this blink!</blink>

If you want to bring attention to a part of text, then just make it blink!

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<body>

Defines the background image as well as the text, link & visited link colors.

Example: &ltbody background=back.gif bgcolor="#000000" link="#003452" vlink="#067897">

BACKGROUND - This tag sets an image (back.gif in this case) to be tiled in the background.
BGCOLOR - If you are not using an image in the background, here you can define a custom color in the RGB palate.
LINK - This will be the color of an un-visited link to a new page.
VLINK - This defines the color of a page link that has already been visited.

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<h1> ... <h6>

Renders your text in a large header font.

Example: <h2>Andy's Art Attack!</h2>

Header 1

Header 2

Header 3

Header 4

Header 5

Header 6

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<title>

Defines the title of the page.

Example: <title>Andy's Art Attack!</title>

This tag makes the text in-between the title tag appear at the top of the browser. It's also the same text that will be used as the bookmark.

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