Commonly used HTML tags

HTML document structure

<html> ... </html>
enclosing the whole document

<head> ... </head>
header information

<title> ... </title>
document title

<link rev="made" href="mailto:e-mail address">
by-line

<body> ... </body>
document body

<h1> ... </h1>
<h2> ... </h2> and so on down to
<h6> ... </h6>
first-level, second-level, ..., sixth-level heading

Type styles and fonts

<em> ... </em>
emphasis (usually italics)

<strong> ... </strong>
strong emphasis (usually boldface)

<i> ... </i>
italics

<b> ... </b>
boldface

<tt> ... </tt>
typewriter font

Layout

<br>
line break

<p>
break between paragraphs

<hr>
horizontal rule

<blockquote> ... </blockquote>
block quotation

<pre> ... </pre>
preformatted text

<code> ... </code>
HTML source code

Lists

<ul> <li> item <li> item ... <li> item </ul>
unordered list

<ol> <li> item <li> item ... <li> item </ol>
ordered list

Anchors and graphics

<a href="document URL"> ... </a>
anchor with hypertext reference to URL

<a href="#name"> ... </a>
anchor with internal hypertext reference

<a name="name"> ... </a>
named anchor (target of internal hypertext reference)

<img src="file URL">
in-line graphic from file URL

<a href="file URL"> ... </a>
external graphic (audio, movie, etc.) from file URL

Special characters

Characters otherwise reserved for HTML tags

<  &lt;
>  &gt;
&  &amp;

German

Ä  &Auml;        ä  &auml;
Ö  &Ouml;        ö  &ouml;
                 ß  &szlig;
Ü  &Uuml;        ü  &uuml;

French

À  &Agrave;      à  &agrave;
  &Acirc;       â  &acirc;
Ç  &Ccedil;      ç  &ccedil;
É  &Eacute;      é  &eacute;
È  &Egrave;      è  &egrave;
Ê  &Ecirc;       ê  &ecirc;
Ë  &Euml;        ë  &euml;
Î  &Icirc;       î  &icirc;
Ï  &Iuml;        ï  &iuml;
Ô  &Ocirc;       ô  &ocirc;
Ù  &Ugrave;      ù  &ugrave;
Û  &Ucirc;       û  &ucirc;

Spanish

Á  &Aacute;      á  &aacute;
É  &Eacute;      é  &eacute;
Í  &Iacute;      í  &iacute;
Ñ  &Ntilde;      ñ  &ntilde;
Ó  &Oacute;      ó  &oacute;
Ú  &Uacute;      ú  &uacute;
Ü  &Uuml;        ü  &uuml;

This document is available on the World Wide Web as

http://www.math.grin.edu/~stone/events/html-workshop/tag-summary.html

created April 13, 1995
last revised July 31, 1997

John David Stone (stone@math.grin.edu)