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Hey Devs, This is the most complete and well-structured HTML cheatsheet you can find online!!
So let's start.
Basic Tags
<html> </html>
- Creates an HTML document
<head> </head>
- Sets off the title & other info that isn't displayed
<body> </body>
- Sets off the visible portion of the document
<title> </title>
- Puts name of the document in the title bar; when
bookmarking pages, this is what is bookmarked
Formatting
<p> </p>
- Creates a new paragraph
<br>
- Inserts a line break (carriage return)
<blockquote> </blockquote>
- Puts content in a quote - indents text from both sides
<div> </div>
- Used to format block content with CSS
<span> </span>
Used to format inline content with CSS
Body attributes
<body bgcolor="?">
- Sets background color, using a name or hex value
<body text="?">
- Sets text color, using name or hex value
<body link="?">
- Sets color of links, using name or hex value
<body vlink="?">
- Sets the color of visited links, using a name or hex value
<body alink="?">
- Sets the color of active links (while mouse-clicking)
Lists
<ul> </ul>
- Creates an unordered list
<ol start=?> </ol>
- Creates an ordered list (start=xx, where xx is a counting number)
<li> </li>
- Encompasses each list item
<dl> </dl>
- Creates a definition list
<dt>
- Precedes each definition term
<dd>
- Precedes each definition
Text Tags
<pre> </pre>
- Creates preformatted text
<h1> </h1>
--> <h6> </h6>
- Creates headlines -- H1=largest, H6=smallest
<b> </b>
- Creates bold text (should use instead)
<i> </i>
- Creates italicized text (should use instead)
<tt> </tt>
- Creates typewriter-style text
<code> </code>
- Used to define source code, usually monospace
<cite> </cite>
- Creates a citation, usually processed in italics
<address> </address>
- Creates address section, usually processed in italics
<em> </em>
- Emphasizes a word (usually processed in italics)
<strong> </strong>
- Emphasizes a word (usually processed in bold)
<font size=?> </font>
- Sets size of font - 1 to 7 (should use CSS instead)
<font color=?> </font>
- Sets font color (should use CSS instead)
<font face=?> </font>
- Defines the font used (should use CSS instead)
Graphical elements
<hr>
- Inserts a horizontal rule
<hr size=?>
- Sets size (height) of horizontal rule
<hr width=?>
- Sets width of rule (as a % or absolute pixel length)
<hr noshade>
- Creates a horizontal rule without a shadow
<img src="URL" />
- Adds image; it is a separate file located at the URL
<img src="URL" align=?>
- Aligns image left/right/center/bottom/top/middle (use CSS)
<img src="URL" border=?>
- Sets size of border surrounding image (use CSS)
<img src="URL" height=?>
- Sets height of image, in pixels
<img src="URL" width=?>
- Sets width of image, in pixels
<img src="URL" alt=?>
- Sets the alternate text for browsers that can't process images (required by the ADA)
Links
<a href="URL">clickable text</a>
- Creates a hyperlink to a Uniform Resource Locator
<a href="mailto:EMAIL_ADDRESS">clickable text</a>
- Creates a hyperlink to an email address
<a name="NAME">
- Creates a target location within a document
<a href="#NAME">clickable text</a>
- Creates a link to that target location
Forms
<form> </form>
- Defines a form
<select multiple name=? size=?> </select>
- Creates a scrolling menu. Size sets the number of menu items visible before user needs to scroll.
<select name=?> </select>
- Creates a pulldown menu
<option>
- Sets off each menu item
<textarea name=? cols="x" rows="y"></textarea>
- Creates a text box area. Columns set the width; rows set the height.
<input type="checkbox" name=? value=?>
- Creates a checkbox.
<input type="checkbox" name=? value=? checked>
- Creates a checkbox which is pre-checked.`
<input type="radio" name=? value=?>
- Creates a radio button.
<input type="radio" name=? value=? checked>
- Creates a radio button which is pre-checked.
<input type="text" name=? size=?>
- Creates a one-line text area. Size sets length, in characters.
<input type="submit" value=?>
- Creates a submit button. Value sets the text in the submit button.
<input type="image" name=? src=? border=? alt=?>
- Creates a submit button using an image.
<input type="reset">
- Creates a reset button
HTML5 input tag attributes
<input type="email" name=?>
- Sets a single-line textbox for email addresses
<input type="url" name=?>
- Sets a single-line textbox for URLs
<input type="number" name=?>
- Sets a single-line textbox for a number
<input type="range" name=?>
- Sets a single-line text box for a range of numbers
<input type="date/month/week/time" name=?>
- Sets a single-line text box with a calendar showing the date/month/week/time
<input type="search" name=?>
- Sets a single-line text box for searching
<input type="color" name=?>
- Sets a single-line text box for picking a color
Tables
<table> </table>
- Creates a table
<tr> </tr>
- Sets off each row in a table
<td> </td>
- Sets off each cell in a row
<th> </th>
- Sets off the table header (a normal cell with bold, centered text)
Table attributes
<table border=?>
- Sets the width of the border around table cells
<table cellspacing=?>
- Sets the amount of space between table cells
<table cellpadding=?>
- Sets the amount of space between a cell's border and its contents
<table width=?>
- Sets the width of the table in pixels or as a percentage
<tr align=?>
- Sets alignment for cells within the row (left/center/right)
<td align=?>
- Sets alignment for cells (left/center/right)
<tr valign=?>
- Sets vertical alignment for cells within the row (top/middle/bottom)
<td valign=?>
- Sets vertical alignment for cell (top/middle/bottom)
<td rowspan=?>
- Sets number of rows a cell should span (default=1)
<td colspan=?>
- Sets the number of columns a cell should span
<td nowrap>
- Prevents lines within a cell from being broken to fit
Also, Check Out @devlorenzo
article on this topic:
The ultimate HTML Tags Cheat Sheet ??
DevLorenzo ・ Feb 21 ・ 3 min read
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This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Garvit Motwani
Garvit Motwani | Sciencx (2021-03-19T04:22:49+00:00) HTML Cheat Sheet ? – The Most Useful HTML Tags ?. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2021/03/19/html-cheat-sheet-%f0%9f%94%a5-the-most-useful-html-tags-%f0%9f%9a%80/
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