Basic Structure

Specifies a comment. Anything between these tags will be skipped by the browser.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 //EN">
This is the necessary first element of any HTML 3.2 compliant document.
<HTML>.....< /HTML>
Encloses the entire document.
<HEAD>.....< /HEAD>
Encloses the head of the document. The following optional tags are placed inside the head.
1. <TITLE>.....< /TITLE>
  Indicates the title of the document that is used as the window caption. This is the second of the two required tags for any HTML 3.2 compliant document.
2. <BASE href="http://something.network/some_file.html">
  Specifies the base URL of the document. This is used when dereferencing relative URLs in the page.
3. <BASE href="http://something.network/some_file.html" TARGET="...">
  Also specifies the base target frame that all links will default to. See the LINK tag for possible values used in TARGET.
4. <META attribut1 attribute2>
  This element can be used to specify name/value pairs describing various properties of the document. Below are some examples:
  To have your page automatically reloaded every X seconds, use the following:
  <META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT=X >
  To have a different page automatically loaded after X seconds, use the following:
  <META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="X; URL=http://some.address/some_file.html">
  To specify an expiration date for the page so that it will be reloaded after a certain date, use:
  <META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="Mon, 23 Sep 1996 01:21:00 GMT">
  To specify keywords for certain search services to use, do the following:
  <META HTTP-EQUIV="Keywords" CONTENT="keyword1, keyword2, ...">
  To specify a description of your page for certain search services to use, do the following:
  <META HTTP-EQUIV="Description" CONTENT="Describe your site here....">
5. <LINK attribute=" HREF="..." >
  Currently this tag is not widely supported, however in the future browsers will use a list of these tags to generate a navigation bar for the site. Without browser support, this tag can still be useful for site maintenance.
  1. REL="..."--Specifies the type of relationship of the link to this page. Possible values are: "home", "toc" (table of contents), "index", "glossary", "copyright", "bookmark", "up", "next", "previous", and "help".
  2. REV="..."--Used instead of REL, this specifies a reverse relationship from this page to the link. Possible values are: "made" (author, set HREF=email address) and all the ones used in REL.
  3. HREF="..."--Specifies the address of the link.
  4. TITLE="..."--Specifies a title for the link.
<BODY attribute1="..." attribute2="...">.....< /BODY>
Encloses the main body of the document.
1. ALINK="..."--Specifies the color of the activated links in the page.
2. BACKGROUND="..."--Specifies an image to be tiled as background.
3. BGCOLOR="..."--Specifies the background color.
4. BGPROPERTIES=FIXED--Fixes the background image so that it doesn't scroll. (IE)
5. LEFTMARGIN="n"--Specifies the left margin for the entire page. (IE)
6. LINK="..."--Specifies the color of the links in the page.
7. TEXT="..."--Specifies the color of the text in the page.
8. TOPMARGIN="n"--Specifies the top margin for the entire page. (IE)
9. VLINK="..."--Specifies the color of the followed links in the page.
  
  NOTE: Color is always expressed as RGB (Red Green Blue), where each color has a value between 0 and 255 expressed in hex notation. For example, BGCOLOR=#FFFF00 sets the background color to yellow.
<BASEFONT attribute=">
Sets the default font properties for the entire page.
1. SIZE="..."--Sets the size of the font to any number between 1 and 7 with 3 being default. Relative sizes also work, e.g. SIZE=+2 .
2. COLOR="..."--Specifies the default font color for the page.
3. Name="..."--Specifies the typeface of the default font.
<Hn>...< /Hn>
Makes the enclosed text a heading of various sizes where n is any number ranging from 1 to 6, and 1 creates the biggest heading while 6 creates the smallest.
<ISINDEX>
Displays a text box indicating the presence of a searchable index. Simply adding this tag will not create a searchable page. The server must be set up to support it.
1. ACTION="..."--Specifies the location of the gateway program to which the search string should be passed.
2. PROMPT="..."--Specifies an alternate prompt for the text box.

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