BASIC HTML TAGS 

An HTML document:

< HTML >
< HEAD >
< TITLE > My First web page < /TITLE >
< /HEAD >

< BODY >

< H1 > My First Web Page < /H1 >
< H2 > My First Web Page as a level 2 header < /H2 >

Instructions on Happiness.
Instructions on < A HREF="#Help" > Happiness < /A >.
This is my < B > cute < /B > Web Page. The word cute is in
bold.
< P > My second paragraph is even cuter and it even contains a 
 < A HREF="a_url_address" > link to another document < /A >

< H2 > 
 Help
< A NAME="Help" >
This section contains instructions on how to be happy: Go to Bahamas!
< /A >

< /H2 >

< /BODY >
< /HTML >



 IMAGES 

To embed images use: < IMG SRC="image name" ALT="default text" >

Here is a funny image.

 

or  another image 

Here is the same image 

or can use images as links:

  



 LISTS 

 Ordered Lists 

< OL >     < /OL >
    < LI >

 Unordered Lists 

< UL >     < /UL >

 Menu Lists 

< MENU >    < /MENU >

 Definition Lists 

< DL >     < /DL >
  < DT > The term to be defined
  < DD > The definition of the term

Can you guess the HTML code which created the following list?

Contents:

Ordered List
Unordered list
Definition List


Perfumes

 Chanel 5
 Brute
 magic


Wrestlers

Macho Man
Indian Hero
Giant


Definitions

Perfume
A substance that smells good.
Wrestler
A big guy who wrestles




 
(A horizontal rule of custom defined width, length and alignment)

Blinking Text

 

Background color

To set the background color you do:

< BODY BGCOLOR= " #rrggbb " TEXT= " #rrggbb "
     LINK= " #rrggbb " VLINK= " rrggbb "
     ALINK= " rrggbb " > < /BODY >

(rrggbb are degrees of red, green and blue in hexadecimal. For example,
 000000 is black, 008000 is green, a6caf0 is light blue etc.
 The default color for LINK is blue, VLINK purple)

Can also use an image as a background (tiling of image):

< BODY Background= " sky.gif " >   < /BODY >


 Sound Files:

 Formats 


AU used by suns, suffix .au or .snd 
AIFF used by Apples, suffix .aif or .iff 
WAV used by  Windows PCs, suffix .wav 
 other, for example Soundblaster .voc files 


 
AU (audio) files the most portable format across platforms.

Can link an audio file with the < A HREF= " file.au " > tag.


 Video Files:
Codec= compression/decompresion Algorithm 

1 second of uncompressed video is around 30 MB

 Video Formats:


 MPEG, suffix .mpg 
Quicktime, suffix .mov (Apples) 
 AVI (Microsoft)


 MPEG uses a predictive calculation algorithm
for compression which makes editing not possible.



 TABLES 

< TABLE >   < /TABLE >
< TR > ...< /TR >
< TD > ... < /TD >          A data cell in a row
< TH > ... < /TH >          A header cell (in bold)
< CAPTION > ... > ... < /CAPTION >


My Table
Good 
 
Bad 
reading
tv
      
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