HTML/XHTML Codes for Web Design

Part of the Web Design All-in-One For Dummies Cheat Sheet

If you’re designing Web sites, you’re going to use HTML and/or XHTML — after all, you need to use some type of language so that your Web sites can communicate, right? The table here gives you HTML/XHTML tags and tells you what each does.

Tag	Description
<!--...-->	Defines a comment
<!DOCTYPE>	Defines the document type
<a>	Defines an anchor
<b>	Defines bold text, though <strong> is better
<blockquote>	Defines a long quotation
<body>	Defines the body element
<br>	Inserts a single line break
<caption>	Defines a table caption
<cite>	Defines a citation
<code>	Defines computer code text
<div>	Defines a section in a document
<em>	Defines emphasized text
<font>	Deprecated. Defines text font, size, and color
<form>	Defines a form
<frame>	Defines a frame within a frameset
<frameset>	Defines a set of frames
<h1> to <h6>	Defines header 1 to header 6
<head>	Defines information about the document
<hr>	Defines a horizontal rule
<html>	Defines an HTML document
<i>	Defines italic text, though <em> is better
<iframe>	Defines an inline subwindow (frame)
<img>	Defines an image
<input>	Defines an input field
<label>	Defines a label for a form control
<li>	Defines a list item
<link>	Defines a resource reference
<map>	Defines an image map
<meta>	Defines meta information
<noframes>	Defines a noframe section
<noscript>	Defines a noscript section
<ol>	Defines an ordered list
<p>	Defines a paragraph
<pre>	Defines preformatted text
<script>	Defines a script
<select>	Defines a selectable list
<span>	Defines a section in a document
<strong>	Defines strong text
<style>	Defines a style definition
<sub>	Defines subscripted text
<sup>	Defines superscripted text
<table>	Defines a table
<td>	Defines a table cell
<textarea>	Defines a text area
<th>	Defines a table header
<title>	Defines the document title
<tr>	Defines a table row
<ul>	Defines an unordered list