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Tags and symbols


<body>
The body tag lets you define some general settings of your page, including the text color, link color, background color and or background image among other things.

<body>...</body>
  • BGCOLOR="..." - background color (RRGGBB)
  • BACKGROUND="http://www.toxicbug.com" - image
  • TEXT="..." - text color (RRGGBB)
  • LINK="..." - link color (RRGGBB)
  • ALINK="..." - active-link color (RRGGBB)
  • VLINK="..." - visited-link color (RRGGBB)
  • LEFTMARGIN="..." - margin from left (pixels)
  • TOPMARGIN="..." - margin from top (pixels)
  • MARGINWIDTH="..." - margin width (pixels)
  • MARGINHEIGHT="..." - margin hieght (pixels)
 
Layout / presentation
<i> </i> =   Italics
<b> </b> =   Bold
<u> </u> =   Underline
<strike> </strike> =   Strike through
<tt> </tt> =   Typewriter
<big> </big> =   Big
<small> </small> =   Small
<blink> </blink> =   Blinking
<sup> </sup> =   SuperScriptxxx
<sub> </sub> =   SubScriptxxx

<font>...</font>
  • face="..." - specifies font type.
    • For second choice if first face not avail use a comma seperated list
  • size="..." - size of font, 3 is default
  • color="..." - color of font (RRGGBB)
    • also accepted RED, GREEN, BLUE, PURPLE, YELLOW, ORANGE
<br>
Forces text to move to the next line after the tag is inserted.. no end tag needed.

<center>...</center>
centers stuff on the page (text, images, tables, etc..)

<p>...</p>
  • align="..." - specifies alignment
    • choices = CENTER, LEFT, RIGHT
<pre>...</pre>
Preformated text

<blockquote>...</blockquote>
places margins on both the left and right of the screen for the text

<hr>
  • size="..." - thickness of line in pixels
  • color="..." - (IE only) color (RRGGBB)
  • width="..." - width in pixels or percentage
  • align="..." - alignment of line
    • choices = RIGHT, CENTER, LEFT
  • NOSHADE - line will be solid color
<marquee>...</marquee>
IE only, puts scrolling text on your page.
  • ALIGN="..."
    • choices = TOP, MIDDLE, BOTTOM
  • BEHAVIOR="..."
    • choices = SCROLL, SLIDE, ALTERNATE
  • WIDTH="..."
    • HEIGHT="..."
  • HSPACE="..."
  • VSPACE="..."
  • BGCOLOR="..."
  • DIRECTION="..."
    • choices = LEFT, RIGHT
  • LOOP="..."
    • choices = -1 (INFINITE), 1, 2, etc..
  • SCROLLAMOUNT="..."
  • SCROLLDELAY="..."
 
Symbols
&amp; =   & (ampersand sign)
&lt; =   < (less than sign)
&gt; =   > (greater than sign)
&quot; =   " (quotation mark)
&nbsp; =     (nonbreaking space)
&copy; =   © (copyright)
&reg; =   ® (registered trademark)
&trade; =   ™ (trademark)
&deg; =   ° (degrees)
&cent; =   ¢ (cent sign)
&yen; =   ¥ (yen sign)
&pound; =   £ (pound)
&plusmn; =   ± (plus or minus)
&aacute; =   á (accute accent)
&egrave; =   è (e with grave accent)
&ntilde; =   ñ (n with tilde)
&ouml; =   ö (o with diaeresis)
&iexcl; =   ¡ (inverted exclamation)
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