Some Basic HTML Tags and what they do

<p> Start a paragraph
&nbsp This inserts a space
<b>This is bold</b> This is bold
<h2> this is a level 2 heading </h2>

This is a level 2 heading
<img src="logo.gif"> This inserts an image named "logo.gif" that lives in the same folder as the file that contains this tag.
<a href="http://www.carleton.edu/">Carleton College</a> Carleton College

<table> start a table
<tr>
<td> The first element in the row
<td> The second element in the row
</tr>
</table>
The first element in the row The second element in the row

For a more complete listing of html tags and what they do you can read "official" definitions at http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/ or visit an informal list like this one http://www.quadzilla.com/tag_ref/tagrefframe.htm. It can also be quite informative to use a tool like Dreamweaver or HomePage that creates the html "for you" and then view the code they've created. You can also look at the html that lies beneth any web page you vist by selecting Edit...View Source within Netscape.

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Sean Fox sfox@carleton.edu Carleton College June 2000