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HTML 4.0 tags

A - anchor
ABBR - abbreviated form (e.g., WWW, HTTP, etc.)
ACRONYM
ADDRESS - information on author
APPLET - Java applet
AREA - client-side image map area
B - bold text style
BASE - document base URI
BASEFONT - base font size
BDO - I18N BiDi over-ride
BIG - large text style
BLOCKQUOTE - long quotation
BODY - document body
BR - forced line break
BUTTON - push button
CAPTION - table caption
CENTER - shorthand for DIV align=center
CITE - citation
CODE - computer code fragment
COL - table column
COLGROUP - table column group
DD - definition description
DEL - deleted text
DFN - instance definition
DIR - directory list
DIV - generic language/style container
DL - definition list
DT - definition term
EM - emphasis
FIELDSET - form control group
FONT - local change to font
FORM - interactive form
FRAME - subwindow
FRAMESET - window subdivision
H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6 - heading
HEAD - document head
HR - horizontal rule
HTML - document root element
I - italic text style
IFRAME - inline subwindow
IMG - Embedded image
INPUT - form control
INS - inserted text
ISINDEX - single line prompt
KBD - text to be entered by the user
LABEL - form field label text
LEGEND - fieldset legend
LI - list item
LINK - a media-independent link
MAP - client-side image map
MENU - menu list
META - generic metainformation
NOFRAMES - alternate content container for non frame-based rendering
NOSCRIPT - alternate content container for non script-based rendering
OBJECT - generic embedded object
OL - ordered list
OPTGROUP - option group
OPTION - selectable choice
P - paragraph
PARAM - named property value
PRE - preformatted text
Q - short inline quotation
S - strike-through text style
SAMP - sample program output, scripts, etc.
SCRIPT - script statements
SELECT - option selector
SMALL - small text style
SPAN - generic language/style container
STRIKE - strike-through text
STRONG - strong emphasis
STYLE - style info
SUB - subscript
SUP - superscript
TABLE - starting tag for table
TBODY - table body
TD - table data cell
TEXTAREA - multi-line text field
TFOOT - table footer
TH - table header cell
THEAD - table header
TITLE - document title
TR - table row
TT - teletype or monospaced text style
U - underlined text style
UL - unordered list
VAR - instance of a variable or program argument


To do this...	Do this...
Load your HTML document in a web browser.
In Netscape:	File/Open OR Type the file location in the URL box.
In Microsoft:	File/Open OR Type the file location in the URL box.
View the markup of a webpage.
In Netscape:	View/Document/Source
In Microsoft:	View/Source
Copy and Paste HTML markup.
Windows:	Crl(or)Apple+C to copy; Crl(or)Apple+X to cut; Crl(or)Apple+V to paste
Why Doesn't My HTML Work?! Make sure your browser is working. Have you opened and closed all your tags? Are you specifying the correct file name to open? Are you using valid HTML? If you still can't get your HTML to work try validating it at: http://validator.w3.org/.

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