Quick Guide to HTML [Faculty or Student]

Description

HTML is a markup language for structuring web page content.

This Guide Will Help You to:

  • Write common html codes

  • Seek further assistance

Write Common Codes

The following example has the minimum amount of tags required to create a HTML document.

  • <html>

  • <head>

  • <title>

  • <body>

Below is an example of some common tags and format of an HTML document.

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If you are interested in styling HTML documents (such as changing colors, backgrounds, size, font, etc), take a look at the Cascading Style Sheet tutorial found here: http://w3schools.com/css/default.asp

 

HTML Tag Samples (with text):

Resulting Text (as viewed in a browser):

<strong>Bold</strong>

Bold

<em>Italic</em>

Italic

<h1>Header1</h1>

Header 1

<h4>Header4</h4>

Header 4

<p>Paragraph break</p>

Paragraph break

Line break <br/>New Item

Line break

New Item

Use the anchor tag to create a <a href=“http://www.isu.edu”>link</a> to another location, such as the ISU homepage

Use the anchor tag to create a link to another location, such as the ISU homepage

An image tag. <img src=“bug.jpg" />

An image tag

An Unordered List:

<ul>

<li>Item</li>

<li>Item</li>

</ul>

  

  • Item

  • Item

An Ordered List:

<ol>

<li>Item one</li>

<li>Item two</li>

<ol>

  

  1. Item one

  2. Item two
 

Seek Further Assistance

For additional assistance, please contact the ITRC at (208) 282-5880 or itrc@isu.edu

For more information, please visit w3schools.com

 

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