Map <MAP NAME="name"> AREA tags </MAP> Defines a client side image map, contains the AREA tags which set out the co-ordinates for the image hotspots. Marquee <MARQUEE> text </MARQUEE> Much maligned tag that makes a line of text scroll on a page. ALIGN="align" - should be one of TOP, MIDDLE, or BOTTOM. BGCOLOR="#rrggbb" - sets the background colour of the scroll box. DIRECTION="direction" - LEFT or RIGHT, the direction the text moves. HEIGHT="height" - specifies the height of the box in pixels. WIDTH="width" - specifies the width of the box in pixels. VSPACE="n" - leaves a space n pixels wide above and below the box. HSPACE="n" - leaves a space n pixels wide either side of the box. LOOP="n" - a whole number greater than zero or INFINITE sets the message to repeat n times. SCROLLAMOUNT="n" - sets the amount of pixels to offset the text by in each redraw. SCROLLDELAY="n" - sets the time in milliseconds between each redraw BEHAVIOR="behavior" - sets the way the text moves, should be one of SCROLL, SLIDE or ALTERNATE. SCROLL - text slides in and out again, then repeats. SLIDE - text slides in and stops, then repeats. ALTERNATE - text bounces from left to right repeatedly. Menu List <MENU> list items </MENU> Introduces a menu list made up of List Item (LI) tags without bullets or numbers. Meta <META HTTP-EQUIV="field name" CONTENT="field value"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="field name" NAME="field name" CONTENT="field value"> Only valid in a HEAD section. Declares HTTP meta name/value pairs that are associated with the HTML document to servers. These are used to extend the HTTP header information returned by the HTTP server. The support of the meta information is HTTP server specific. If a name attribute is not specified the HTTP-EQUIV attribute is used as the name. NAME="description" - provides content for search engines to list information about the document. NAME="keywords" - provides keywords for search engines to associate to your document for indexing purposes. Can also be used to trigger client side behaviour: The browser will reload the page every "n" seconds. Add URL="page" to this and the browser will load the page specified in it after the "n" seconds. Allows different international character sets to be selected. Multi Column Text <MULTICOL attributes> This tag is a container, used to split the display into columns without using frames or tables. COLS="number"The COLS attribute is mandatory and controls how many columns the display will be split into. GUTTER="pixels" - controls the pixels of space between columns, defaults to 10. WIDTH="number" - controls the width of an individual column. No Break <NOBR> text </NOBR> Defines a block of text with no line breaks except those explicitly requested with BR or WOBR. No Frames <NOFRAMES> something shown instead </NOFRAMES> Specifies HTML that can be displayed in browsers which do not support frames. the contents are ignored by browsers that understand frames. Object <OBJECT> content </OBJECT> Used to place specific items such as .wav, .avi and java applets in HTML. Ordered List <OL> list items </OL> Introduces an ordered (numbered) list made up of List Item (LI) tags. A list heading (LH) may be included before the first list item. Paragraph Text <P> text </P> Starts a new paragraph. </P> is optional if the tag is only to insert space between two paragraphs (the same as using two BR tags), It MUST be used with attributes e.g. ALIGN="center" which apply to whole paragraphs. Parameters <PARAM NAME="name" VALUE="value"> Only valid in an APPLET tag, passes parameters to the applet, which gets them with the getParameter() method. Plain Text <PLAINTEXT> text </PLAINTEXT> Defines text to be shown in a fixed width font with the line breaks and other whitespace specified by the page author. Multiple spaces will be displayed as multiple spaces. HTML tags are not rendered inside this tag. Preformatted Text <PRE> text </PRE> Defines text that should be shown in a fixed width font with the line breaks and other whitespace specified by the page author. Multiple spaces will be displayed as multiple spaces. Typically used for several lines of program code or for poetry. WIDTH="width" - specifies the maximum number of characters per line. | Tag List <!-- &tag; A ADDRESS APPLET AREA B BASE BASEFONT BGSOUND BIG BLINK BLOCKQUOTE BODY BR CAPTION CENTER CITE CODE COL COLGROUP DD DFN DIR DL DT EM EMBED FONT FORM FRAME FRAMESET Hn HEAD HR HTML I IFRAME IMG INPUT TYPE=CHECKBOX INPUT TYPE=FILE INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN INPUT TYPE=IMAGE INPUT TYPE=PASSWORD INPUT TYPE=RADIO INPUT TYPE=RANGE INPUT TYPE=RESET INPUT TYPE=SCRIBBLE INPUT TYPE=SELECT INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT INPUT TYPE=TEXT ISINDEX KBD LI LINK LISTING MAP MARQUEE MENU META MULTICOL NOBR NOFRAMES OBJECT OL P PARAM PLAINTEXT PRE SAMP SCRIPT SMALL SPACER STRIKE STRONG SUB SUP TABLE TBODY TD TEXTAREA TFOOT TH THEAD TITLE TR TT U UL VAR WBR XMP |