<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> - HTML identifier to tell the browser which language to use <html> - HTML statement <head> - Document head statement <title>The Title</title> - Title that appears in the header bar <META Name="description" Content ="Friendly help to guide you on your way to writing your own web pages"> - Meta Tag - words that may appear on your index listing <META Name="keywords" Content ="anatomy, web pages, do it yourself"> - Meta Tag - describing words that a search spider indexes the page by </head> - Closing 'Head' tag <body bgcolor="ffffbb" background="picture.gif" link="009000" alink="009000" vlink="009000"> - This is the start tag for the page and defines the page colour, a substitute picture tile, and link colours. Note the American spelling of 'color' <a name=1></a> - Anchor for 'Top of Page' link from the foot of the page <font color="#000000" size="3" face="arial"> - Font colour, size, and face - largest font size is 7 and smallest is 1, colours range from #000000 to #ffffff in three hex pairs in the order red, green, blue. Ordinary text </font> - closing font tag <img src="images/mypicture.jpg" width=100 height=50 align="right" border=1 alt="A picture of me"> - picture image <b> - Text bold Bold Text </b> - Closing tag <u> - Text underlined Underlined Text </u> - Closing tag <br> - Line break, no closing tag required <p> - Paragraph break, closing tag required <center> Text </center> - Put text to be centred on the page between these tags - note the American spelling of 'centre' <a href=#1>Top of Page</a> - Link to the 'Top of the Page' <h6> - Alternative font size statement - largest font size is 1, smallest is 6, behaves like a 'p' tag - see above Last updated: September 13th, 2006.
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