| HTML TAGS, a quick reference
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| begin Comment, invisible on the browser-rendered HTML page. Close tag is -->
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| <a
| Anchor, used in conjunction with href, as in <a href
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| <address
| designates and (sometimes) formats a street address
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| <applet
| creates an insertion spot for a java applet
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| <area
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| <b
| specifies bold formatting for text
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| <base
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| <basefont
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| <bgsound
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| <big
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| <bink
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| <blockquote
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| <body
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| <br
| Break. End this line and start the next.
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| <caption
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| <center
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| <cite
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| <clear
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| <code
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| <dn
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| <dfn
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| <dir
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| <div
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| <dl
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| <dt
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| <em
| Emphasis. Usually the same as "bold" but permits browser to set formatting preferences.
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| <embed
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| <font
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| <form
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| <frameset
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| <h1
| Heading 1. The largest of all the headings. Formats characters in large type and adjusts spacing.
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| <h2
| Heading 2. The second largest of all the headings. Formats characters in large type and adjusts spacing.
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| <h3
| Heading 3. The third largest of all the headings. Formats characters in large type and adjusts spacing.
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| <h4
| Heading 4. The fourth largest of all the headings. Formats characters in large type and adjusts spacing.
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| <h5
| Heading 5. The fifth largest of all the headings. Formats characters in large type and adjusts spacing.
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| <h6
| Heading 6. The smallest of all the headings. Formats characters in large type and adjusts spacing.
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| <head
| Head area on the Web page. Except for the title which shows up in the blue bar, this area on top of the Web page usually contains invisible information such as stylesheets, scripts, meta tags.
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| <hr
| Horizonal rule. A line across the Web page, used as a separator.
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| <html
| Hyper Text Markup Language. This opening tag goes at the top of the code in the Web page and tells the browser to interpret the code as HTML. The closing HTML tag is at the very bottom of the Web page.
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| <i
| Italic. Used for formatting text.
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| <img
| Image. This tag contains the path and filename to an image so it can be displayed on the Web page. Other attributes usually included in this tag are height, width, alt (what the user sees if he can't see the image).
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| <input
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| <isindex
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| <kbd
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| <keygen
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| <li
| List Item. Used in conjunction with ol or ul. This tag designates a single item in the list.
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| <link
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| <listing
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| <map
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| <menu
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| <meta
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| <nobr
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| <noembed
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| <noframes
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| <noscript
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| <ol
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| <option
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| <p
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| <param
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| <plaintext
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| <pre
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| <s
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| <samp
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| <script
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| <select
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| <small
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| <span
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| <strike
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| <strong
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| <style
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| <sub
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| <sup
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| <table
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| <td
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| <textarea
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| <th
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| <title
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| <tr
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| <tt
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| <u
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| <ul
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| <var
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| <wbr
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| <xmp
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