GEO 466/566: The Profession of Geography
HTML Tags
<HTML> This should be the first line of each of your HTML files. Remember that it
must be paired with a </HTML> tag, to be placed at the end of each file.
<TITLE> This places the title of your page in the viewer's banner bar. The TITLE line of
this page looks like: <TITLE> HTML Tags</TITLE>
Note that this tag must be closed with </TITLE>
<H1>
Heading Level One
This tag must be closed with a </H1>
<H2>
Heading Level Two
This tag must be closed with a</H2>
<H3>
Heading Level Three
This tag must be closed with a </H3>
<H4>
Heading Level Four
This tag must be closed with a </H4>
<H5>
Heading Level Five
This tag must be closed with a </H5>
<H6>
Heading Level Six
This tag must be closed with a </H6>
Standalone Tags
<BR> Line break (single return)
<P> Paragraph separator (double return)
<HR> Horizontal Rule
Style tags
<CENTER>Centers your text on the page
<B> Bold type
<I> Italic type
Note: These style tags must be closed with the appropriate </>tag.
List Tags
<UL> Formats text as an unordered list
<OL> Formats text as an ordered (or numbered) list
- Ordered lists require the use of the <LI>tag so that each list item is numbered properly.
List tags may be nested in order to create detailed outlines in your documents.
Note: List tags require the appropriate closing tag: </UL> or </OL>
Links
Making text "hot": <a href = "http://path to your file"> text</a>
Making a "mail to" link: <mailto = "e-mail address"> name or e-mail address</a>
Inlined images: <img src = "http://path to your imagefile.gif">
Note: This is a standalone tag (you don't close it with a </img> ).
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This material was prepared by Shannon Crum, Department of Geography, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712-1098. Last revised September 13, 1996 by JTK.