HTML Basics

<TITLE></TITLE>

There is only one title per document. In Netscape the title appears in the window title bar, and in the Document Information window. On other browsers, The HTML that made this documents title is:

<TITLE>HTML Basics</TITLE>

<H1></H1>

There are six levels of HTML header. They are:

<H1>Level 1</H1>

It's also important to observe the spacing that occurs above and below a header: this helps to set it apart from surrounding text, which may be large.

<H2>Level 2</H2>

It's also important to observe the spacing that occurs above and below a header: this helps to set it apart from surrounding text, which may be large.

<H3>Level 3</H3>

It's also important to observe the spacing that occurs above and below a header: this helps to set it apart from surrounding text, which may be large.

<H4>Level 4</H4>

It's also important to observe the spacing that occurs above and below a header: this helps to set it apart from surrounding text, which may be large.

<H5>Level 5</H5>

It's also important to observe the spacing that occurs above and below a header: this helps to set it apart from surrounding text, which may be large.

<H6>Level 6</H6>

It's also important to observe the spacing that occurs above and below a header: this helps to set it apart from surrounding text, which may be large.

<P> and <BR>

Normally when you write text in an HTML document, all the text would flow together, unless you gave HTML instructions for paragraph breaks.

<P> tells Netscape to put in a paragraph break and insert a gap in the text flow. A <P> was just used before this paragraph.
<BR> tells Netscape to break the paragraph, but not put in a gap. A <BR> was just used before this paragraph.

<BR CLEAR=LEFT>

<BR CLEAR=RIGHT>

<BR CLEAR=ALL>

<NOBR></NOBR>

<WBR>

<FONT></FONT> and other text variations

<BASEFONT size=1|2|3|4|5|6|7></BASEFONT>

This determines the font size against which all relative font changes occur. The default is 3.

<FONT size=1|2|3|4|5|6|7></FONT>

This creates relative font changes from the base font size. The default is 3.

Some examples:

You can increase the relative font size, or you can even decrease it.

You can <FONT SIZE=+2>increase the relative font size</FONT>, or
you can even <FONT SIZE=-2>decrease it</FONT>.

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You can work with a larger base font size. In this case, changes such as an increase, or decrease are based on that font size.

<BASEFONT SIZE=5>
You can work with a larger base font size. In this case, changes such as
an <FONT SIZE=+2>increase</FONT>, or <FONT SIZE=-2>decrease</FONT> are
based on that font size.
</BASEFONT>

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Text can be:

• <B>bold</B>
• <I>italic</I>
• <TT>fixed</TT>
Text can be a combination of these factors, as well.

<PRE></PRE>

<PRE>

Type in any text that you like. The text will be printed in a fixed width font,
and will observe all returns, page breaks, etc, that you type in the original HTML file.
Text wrapping and formatting to fit window size is off.

What you see is what you get.

</PRE>

<UL></UL>

The syntax of these commands is:

<UL TYPE=disc|round|square></UL>

Used to start and end the list.

<LI TYPE=disc|round|square>

Used to indicate an item in the list.

An simple unordered list is created thus:

<UL>

• <LI>Item 1
• <LI>Item 2
  <UL>
  • <LI>Subitem A
  • <LI>Subitem B
    <UL>
    • <LI>Sub-subitem A
    • <LI>Sub-subitem B
    </UL>
  </UL>
• <LI>Item 3
</UL>

If you don't like the symbols being used by each of the levels, you can change them, either on a per item basis, or for the whole list.

<UL>

• <LI TYPE=DISC>This is a disc
• <LI TYPE=ROUND>This is a round
• <LI TYPE=SQUARE>This is a square
  <UL TYPE=DISC>
  • <LI>Item 1
  • <LI>Item 2
  • <LI>Item 3
  </UL>
</UL>

<OL></OL>

<OL START=number TYPE=A|a|I|i|1></OL>

Used to start and end a numbered list. START allows you to specify the number of the first item in the list. TYPE allows you to specify the numbering style. A=capital alpha ordering, a=lowercase alpha ordering, I=capital roman number ordering, i=lowercase roman number ordering, and 1 means numeric.

<LI VALUE=number>

This allows you to specify a specific number to an item in a numbered list.

<LI TYPE=A|a|I|i|1>

This allows you to specify the numbering style for any one item in a numbered list.

A simple ordered list looks like this:

<OL>

1. <LI>Item 1
2. <LI>Item 2
3. <LI>Item 3
   <OL>
   1. <LI>Subitem 1
   2. <LI>Subitem 2
      <OL>
      1. <LI>Sub-subitem 1
      2. <LI>Sub-subitem 2
      3. <LI>Sub-subitem 3
      4. <LI>Sub-subitem 4
      </OL>
   3. <LI>Subitem 3
   4. <LI>Subitem 4
   </OL>
4. <LI>Item 4

For finer control of your list, you can do things like:

<OL TYPE=I>

1. <LI>Item 1
2. <LI>Item 2
3. <LI>Item 3
   <OL START=4 TYPE=A>
   4. <LI>Subitem 1
   5. <LI>Subitem 2
      <OL START=6 TYPE=a>
      6. <LI>Sub-subitem 1
      7. <LI>Sub-subitem 2
      8. <LI>Sub-subitem 3
      9. <LI>Sub-subitem 4
      </OL>
   10. <LI VALUE=10>Subitem 3
   11. <LI>Subitem 4
   </OL>
12. <LI TYPE=i VALUE=12>Item 4

<DL></DL>

<HR>

<HR SIZE=number>

<HR WIDTH=number|percent>

<HR ALIGN=left|right|center>

<HR NOSHADE>

<DIV></DIV>

ISO Latin 1 character entities

This list is derived from "ISO 8879:1986//ENTITIES Added Latin 1//EN".

Æ	&AElig	capital AE diphthong (ligature)
Á	&Aacute	capital A, acute accent
Â	&Acirc	capital A, circumflex accent
À	&Agrave	capital A, grave accent
Å	&Aring	capital A, ring
Ã	&Atilde	capital A, tilde
Ä	&Auml	capital A, dieresis or umlaut mark
Ç	&Ccedil	capital C, cedilla
Ð	&ETH	capital Eth, Icelandic
É	&Eacute	capital E, acute accent
Ê	&Ecirc	capital E, circumflex accent
È	&Egrave	capital E, grave accent
Ë	&Euml	capital E, dieresis or umlaut mark
Í	&Iacute	capital I, acute accent
Î	&Icirc	capital I, circumflex accent
Ì	&Igrave	capital I, grave accent
Ï	&Iuml	capital I, dieresis or umlaut mark
Ñ	&Ntilde	capital N, tilde
Ó	&Oacute	capital O, acute accent
Ô	&Ocirc	capital O, circumflex accent
Ò	&Ograve	capital O, grave accent
Ø	&Oslash	capital O, slash
Õ	&Otilde	capital O, tilde
Ö	&Ouml	capital O, dieresis or umlaut mark
Þ	&THORN	capital THORN, Icelandic
Ú	&Uacute	capital U, acute accent
Û	&Ucirc	capital U, circumflex accent
Ù	&Ugrave	capital U, grave accent
Ü	&Uuml	capital U, dieresis or umlaut mark
Ý	&Yacute	capital Y, acute accent
á	&aacute	small a, acute accent
â	&acirc	small a, circumflex accent
æ	&aelig	small ae diphthong (ligature)
à	&agrave	small a, grave accent
å	&aring	small a, ring
ã	&atilde	small a, tilde
ä	&auml	small a, dieresis or umlaut mark
ç	&ccedil	small c, cedilla
é	&eacute	small e, acute accent
ê	&ecirc	small e, circumflex accent
è	&egrave	small e, grave accent
ð	&eth	small eth, Icelandic
ë	&euml	small e, dieresis or umlaut mark
í	&iacute	small i, acute accent
î	&icirc	small i, circumflex accent
ì	&igrave	small i, grave accent
ï	&iuml	small i, dieresis or umlaut mark
ñ	&ntilde	small n, tilde
ó	&oacute	small o, acute accent
ô	&ocirc	small o, circumflex accent
ò	&ograve	small o, grave accent
ø	&oslash	small o, slash
õ	&otilde	small o, tilde
ö	&ouml	small o, dieresis or umlaut mark
ß	&szlig	small sharp s, German (sz ligature)
þ	&thorn	small thorn, Icelandic
ú	&uacute	small u, acute accent
û	&ucirc	small u, circumflex accent
ù	&ugrave	small u, grave accent
ü	&uuml	small u, dieresis or umlaut mark
ý	&yacute	small y, acute accent
ÿ	&yuml	small y, dieresis or umlaut mark
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