Web Design Vocabulary

< HTML > : Begin the HTML page.

< HEAD > : Begin the heading of the document.

< TITLE > : Designate the title of the page.

< BODY > : Begin the body of the document.   Attributes: BGCOLOR

< H1 > : Format a level 1 heading.

< H2 > : Format a level 2 heading.

< H3 > : Format a level 3 heading.

< H4 > : Format a level 4 heading.

< H5 > : Format a level 5 heading.

< H6 > : Format a level 6 heading.

< BR > : Add a line break.

< P > : Set apart a group of text as a paragraph.   Attributes: ALIGN

< I > : Format the text using italics.

< B > : Format the text with boldface

< UL > Create an unordered list

< OL > Create an ordered list

< LI > Specify a list item

< FONT> Specify font characteristics

                FACE, COLOR

< A > Designate a hyperlink

         HREF, TARGET, NAME

< IMG > Designate an image

              SRC, ALT, HEIGHT, WIDTH, ALIGN, BORDER

< TABLE > Designate an HTML table

                   BORDER, WIDTH, CELLPADDING, CELLSPACING

< TR > Designate a table row

            BGCOLOR

< TD > Designate a table cell

            COLSPAN, ALIGN, VALIGN, BGCOLOR, ROWSPAN

< TH > Designate a table heading

< FRAMESET > Designate a frames page

                           COLS, ROWS

< FRAME > Designate a frame within a frames page

                    SRC, NAME

< NOFRAMES > Designate code that will be displayed if frames are not supported

< FORM > Designate the start of a form

                  ACTION, METHOD

< INPUT > Designate a form element

                  NAME, TYPE, VALUE

< SELECT > Designate a pull down menu

                      NAME

< OPTION > Designate an item in a pull-down menu

                     VALUE

< TEXTAREA > Designate a text area to insert text

                           NAME, ROWS, COLS