A - anchor

The A (anchor) tag begins a location reference. This can NAME the current location, or provide a HREF (html reference) to another file.

Examples:
<A NAME="reference name">

This example begins a section called "reference name". You can link to a reference in the same file using:

<A HREF="#reference name">link text</A>

The previous example would appear as link text, and when clicked would jump to the "reference name" locator whenever the user clicks "link text". To link to a specific section of another page, you would use:

<A HREF="http://www.webaddress.ext/filename.html#reference name">link text</A>

You can link to another file using this format:

<A HREF="http://www.webaddress.ext/filename.html">link text</A>

You can also use the A tag to TARGET which window you want the link to open in.

ADDRESS, CITE, DFN, EM, I

The ADDRESS (CITE, DFN, EM, or I can also be used) tag renders text in italics.

Example:
<I>italicised text</I>

This example yields italicised text.

AREA

Specifies the shape of a "hot spot" in a client-side image map (client-side image maps are pictures which cause the browser to jump to different URLs depending on where you click).

COORDS="x1, y1, x2, y2, ..."
Coordinates that define the hot spot's shape. RECT hot spots, for example, use just two.

HREF="url"
Specifies a url address for the hot spot to link to.

NOHREF
Indicates that clicks in this region should cause no action.

SHAPE="shape"
Denotes the type of shape. Allowed values: RECT, RECTANGLE, CIRC, CIRCLE, POLY, or POLYGON. (CIRC/CIRCLE takes three coordinates, centerx, centery, and radius; POLY/POLYGON takes three or more pairs of coordinates denoting a polygonal region.

Example:
<AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="50, 25, 150, 125" HREF="http://www.sample.com">
Creates a rectangular hot spot from (50, 25) to (150, 125).

B, STRONG

The B (or STRONG) tag renders text in boldface.

Example:
<STRONG>boldface text</STRONG>

This example yields boldface text.

BASE

Specifies the document's full URL in case the document gets read out of context and the reader wants to refer to the original. Used within the HEAD section.

Example:
<BASE HREF="http://www.server.com/file.html"> This example specifies "file.html" and the address for the file.

You can also specify the TARGET window for links with this tag.

BASEFONT

Specifies the default font size for the document. You can then set relative font sizes (FONT SIZE=-4) based on this value.

Example:
<BASEFONT SIZE=2> Sets the base font size to 2. FONT SIZE=+3 would then yield a font size of 5.

BGSOUND

The BGSOUND tag allows you to create pages with background sounds (.au, .mid, or .wav format).

SRC
Specifies the address of a sound to be displayed.

LOOP
Specifies how many times a sound will loop when activated. If n=-1, or if LOOP=INFINITE is specified, it will loop indefinitely.

<BGSOUND SRC="file.mid" LOOP=5> Will play "file.mid" five times after the page and audio file has loaded.

BLINK*

Makes text flash. *No longer supported by many browsers (it is tacky!)

Example:
<BLINK>blinking text</BLINK>

This example yields blinking text.

BLOCKQUOTE

The BLOCKQUOTE tag indents text from both the right and left margins.

BODY

The BODY tag formats how your hypertext document appears in the browser.
Use these keywords with the BODY tag:

BACKGROUND
Specifies a background picture. The picture is tiled behind the text and graphics on the page.

BGCOLOR
Sets the background color of the page. rrggbb is a hexadecimal number denoting a red-green-blue color value (the pound sign is optional). BGCOLOR and each of the other color attributes here can also be set to a colorname.

BGPROPERTIES
Specifies a watermark, which is a background picture that does not scroll.
<BODY BACKGROUND="bgfile.gif" BGPROPERTIES=FIXED>

LEFTMARGIN, RIGHTMARGIN, TOPMARGIN, BOTTOMMARGIN
Specifies the margins for the entire body of the page and overrides the default margin. Set to "0", the margin will be exactly on the left edge.

LINK, ALINK, VLINK
Sets the color of shortcuts, anchor shortcuts, and visited shortcuts.

SCROLL
Specifices scroll bars.

TEXT
Sets the color of text on the page.

Example:
<BODY BACKGROUND="file.jpg" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#000080" ALINK="#CCCCCC" VLINK="#F0F0F0">

This sets the body background to an image in "file.jpg" with black text and defines colors for links.

Inserts a line break.

CLEAR
Inserts vertical space so that the next text displayed will be past left- or right-aligned "floating" images. LEFT inserts space so that the next text appears aligned with the left margin directly below a left-aligned floating image; RIGHT is the same, but for the right side; and ALL puts the next text past all floating images.

<IMG SRC="sample.gif" ALIGN=LEFT>Here's some text to the right of a picture.<BR CLEAR=LEFT>Here's some text beneath the picture.

CAPTION

Specifies a caption for a table and must be used within the TABLE tag.

ALIGN, VALIGN
ALIGN draws the caption left-flush, right-flush, or centered with the table borders. VALIGN draws the caption on the top or the bottom of the table.

<TABLE><CAPTION ALIGN=CENTER VALIGN=BOTTOM>This caption will appear centered below and centered between the left and right borders of the table.</CAPTION><TR><TD>This is a cell in the table.</TD></TR></TABLE>

CENTER

Causes subsequent text and images to be centered.

CODE or SAMP

Specifies a code sample. Renders text in a small font. (If no FONT FACE is specified, the font used is fixed-width.)

COMMENT

Indicates a comment. The text between the tags is ignored, unless it contains HTML code.

DD - definition list definition

Indicates that the text is a definition of a term, and should therefore be displayed in the right-hand column of a definition list.

DIR - directory list

Specifies that the following block consists of individual items, each beginning with an <LI> tag and none containing more than 20 characters, which should be displayed in columns.

Example:
<DIR> <LI>Art <LI>History <LI>Literature <LI>Sports <LI>Entertainment <LI>Science</DIR>

Yields:

DL - definition list

Specifies that the following block is a definition list: that is, an automatically formatted two-column list with terms on the left and their definitions on the right.

Example:
<DL><DT>Cat<DD>A furry cute animal that purrs and likes milk.<DT>Lizard<DD>A weird desert animal with a crazy long tongue.</DL>

Appears as:

Cat: A furry cute animal that purrs and likes milk.
Lizard: A weird desert animal with a crazy long tongue.

DT - definition term

Indicates that the text is a term to be defined, and should therefore be displayed in the left-hand column of a definition list.

FONT

Specifies font options.

COLOR
Sets font color. rrggbb is a hexadecimal number denoting a red-green-blue color value (the pound sign is optional). Can also be set to a colorname.

FACE
Sets the font. A list of font names can be specified. If the first font is available on the system, it will be used, otherwise the second will be tried, and so on. If none are available, a default font will be used.

SIZE
Specifies font size between 1 and 7 (7 is largest). A plus or minus before the number indicates a size relative to the current BASEFONT setting. Note: Relative font sizes are not cumulative. Putting two <FONT SIZE=+1> tags in a row does not result in the font size being increased by 2.

Example:
<FONT COLOR=RED FACE="Arial,Lucida Sans,Times Roman" SIZE=3>

This text will be in red, either Arial, Lucida Sans, or Times Roman, depending on which fonts you have installed on your system, and size 3.

FORM

Specifices a form.

ACTION
Specifies the address to be used to carry out the action of the form. If none is specified, the base URL of the document is used.

METHOD
Indicates how the form data should be sent to the server. GET means append the arguments to the action URL and open it as if it were an anchor; POST means send the data via an HTTP post transaction.

<FORM ACTION="http:// www.sample.com/bin/search" METHOD=GET></FORM>

FRAME, FRAMESET

Frames are generated by three things: FRAMESET tags, FRAME tags, and Frame Documents.

FRAME DOCUMENT
A Frame Document has a basic structure very much like your normal HTML document, except the BODY container is replaced by a FRAMESET container which describes the sub-HTML documents, or Frames, that will make up the page.

Example:
<HTML> <HEAD> </HEAD> <FRAMESET> </FRAMESET> </HTML>

FRAME SYNTAX
Frame syntax is similar in scope and complexity to that used by tables, and has been designed to be quickly processed by Internet client layout engines.

<FRAMESET>
This is the main container for a Frame. It has 2 attributes ROWS and COLS. A frame document has no BODY, and no tags that would normally be placed in the BODY can appear before the FRAMESET tag, or the FRAMESET will be ignored. The FRAMESET tag has a matching end tag, and within the FRAMESET you can only have other nested FRAMESET tags, FRAME tags, or the NOFRAMES tag.

ROWS="row_height_value_list"

The ROWS attribute takes as its value a comma separated list of values. These values can be absolute pixel values, percentage values between 1 and 100, or relative scaling values. The number of rows is implicit in the number of elements in the list. Since the total height of all the rows must equal the height of the window, row heights might be normalized to achieve this. A missing ROWS attribute is interpreted as a single row arbitrarily sized to fit.

Syntax of value list:
value
A simple numeric value is assumed to be a fixed size in pixels. This is the most dangerous type of value to use since the size of the viewer's window can and does vary substantially. If fixed pixel values are used, it will almost certainly be necessary to mix them with one or more of the relative size values described below. Otherwise the client engine will likely override your specified pixel value to ensure that the total proportions of the frame are 100% of the width and height of the user's window. value% This is a simple percentage value between 1 and 100. If the total is greater than 100 all percentages are scaled down. If the total is less than 100, and relative-sized frames exist, extra space will be given to them. If there are no relative-sized frames, all percentages will be scaled up to match a total of 100%.

value*
The value on this field is optional. A single '*' character is a "relative-sized" frame and is interpreted as a request to give the frame all remaining space. If there exist multiple relative-sized frames, the remaining space is divided evenly among them. If there is a value in front of the '*', that frame gets that much more relative space. "2*,*" would give 2/3 of the space to the first frame, and 1/3 to the second.

Example for 3 rows, the first and the last being smaller than the center row:
<FRAMESET ROWS="20%,60%,20%">

Example for 3 rows, the first and the last being fixed height, with the remaining space assigned to the middle row:
<FRAMESET ROWS="100,*,100">

COLS="column_width_list"

The COLS attribute takes as its value a comma separated list of values that is of the exact same syntax as the list described above for the ROWS attribute.

The FRAMESET tag can be nested inside other FRAMESET tags. In this case the complete subframe is placed in the space that would be used for the corresponding frame if this had been a FRAME tag instead of a nested FRAMESET.

<FRAME>
This tag defines a single frame in a frameset. It has 6 possible attributes: SRC, NAME, MARGINWIDTH, MARGINHEIGHT, SCROLLING, and NORESIZE. The FRAME tag is not a container so it has no matching end tag.

SRC="url": The SRC attribute takes as its value the URL of the document to be displayed in this particular frame. FRAMEs without SRC attributes are displayed as a blank space the size the frame would have been.
NAME="window_name": The NAME attribute is used to assign a name to a frame so it can be targeted by links in other documents (These are usually from other frames in the same document.) The NAME attribute is optional; by default all windows are unnamed. Names must begin with an alphanumeric character. Named frames can have their window contents targeted with the new TARGET attribute.
MARGINWIDTH="value": The MARGINWIDTH attribute is used when the document author wants some control of the margins for this frame. If specified, the value for MARGINWIDTH is in pixels. Margins can not be less than one-so that frame objects will not touch frame edges-and can not be specified so that there is no space for the document contents. The MARGINWIDTH attribute is optional; by default, all frames default to letting the browser decide on an appropriate margin width.
MARGINHEIGHT="value": The MARGINHEIGHT attribute is just like MARGINWIDTH above, except it controls the upper an lower margins instead of the left and right margins.
SCROLLING="yes|no|auto": The SCROLLING attribute is used to describe if the frame should have a scrollbar or not. Yes results in scrollbars always being visible on that frame. No results in scrollbars never being visible. Auto instructs the browser to decide whether scrollbars are needed, and place them where necessary. The SCROLLING attribute is optional; the default value is auto.
NORESIZE: The NORESIZE attribute has no value. It is a flag that indicates that the frame is not resizable by the user. Users typically resize frames by draggin a frame edge to a new position. Note that if any frame adjacent to an edge is not resizable, that entire edge will be restricted from moving. This will effect the resizability of other frames.The NORESIZE attribute is optional; by default all frames are resizable.

<NOFRAMES>
This tag is for content providers who want to create alternative content that is viewable by non-Frame-capable clients. A Frame-capable Internet client ignores all tags and data between start and end NOFRAMES tags.

H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6, H7

Specifies headings. There are seven possible levels, H1 is the largest.

ALIGN
Aligns the heading LEFT, CENTER, or RIGHT.

Example:
<H1>Main Heading Text</H1> <H2 ALIGN=CENTER>Centered Subheading Text</H2>

Main Heading Text

Centered Subheading Text

HEAD

The HEAD tag defines the document header, containing information the browser uses to format the document such as TITLE and META.

Draws a horizontal rule. If no arguments are specified, the rule will be the width of the screen.

ALIGN
Draws the rule LEFT-flush, RIGHT-flush, or CENTERed.

COLOR
Specifies the line color.

NOSHADE
Draws the rule without 3-D shading.

SIZE
Sets the height of the rule in pixels.

WIDTH
Sets the width of the rule as a percentage of window width (if % used), or in pixels.

Example:
<HR ALIGN=RIGHT WIDTH=80%> <HR NOSHADE COLOR=GREEN SIZE=5>

HTML

A HTML tag defines (begins & ends) a hyper-text markup language document.

IMG - image

Specifies an in-line multimedia image (still or video).

ALIGN
The surrounding text is aligned with the TOP, MIDDLE, or BOTTOM of the picture. With LEFT or RIGHT, the picture is drawn as a left-flush or right-flush "floating image," and text will flow around it.

ALT
Specifies an alternative text description of the image.

BORDER
Specifies the size of a border to be drawn around the image. If the image is a hyperlink, the border is drawn in the appropriate hyperlink color. If the image is not a hyperlink, the border is invisible.

CONTROLS
If a video clip is present, a set of controls is displayed under the clip.

DYNSRC
Specifies the address of a video clip or VRML world to be displayed in the window. Stands for Dynamic Support.

<IMG SRC="sample.gif" DYNSRC="test.avi" CONTROLS> If your browser Sources inline video, you will see the movie Test.avi; otherwise you will see the picture Sample.gif.

HEIGHT, WIDTH
Defines the size at which the picture is drawn. (If the picture's actual dimensions differ from those specified with WIDTH and HEIGHT, the picture is stretched to match what's specified.) This will also speed the rate at which documents load, because many browsers also use this to draw a placeholder of appropriate size for the picture before it's loaded.

HSPACE, VSPACE
Specifies margins for the image. Similar to BORDER, except the margins are not painted with color when the image is a hyperlink.

ISMAP
Identifies the picture as a server-side image map. Clicking the picture transmits the coordinates of the click back to the server, triggering a jump to another page.

LOOP
Specifies how many times a video clip will loop when activated. If LOOP=-1, or if LOOP=INFINITE is specified, it will loop indefinitely.

SRC
Specifies the address of the picture to insert.

START
For video clips: specifies when the file should start playing. FILEOPEN means start playing as soon as the file is done opening. This is the default. MOUSEOVER means start playing when the user moves the mouse cursor over the animation. Both can be used together.

USEMAP
Identifies the picture as a client-side image map and specifies a MAP to use for acting on the user's clicks.

INPUT

Defines a form component.

ALIGN
Used when TYPE=IMAGE. Specifies how the next line of text will be aligned with the image.

CHECKED
For check boxes and radio buttons, indicates that they are selected.

MAXLENGTH
Indicates the maximum number of characters that can be entered into a text control.

NAME
Specifies the name of the control.

SIZE
Specifies the size of the control (in characters). For TEXTAREA-type controls, both height and width can be specified by using SIZE="width,height".

SRC
Used when TYPE=IMAGE. Specifies the address of the image to be used.

TYPE
Specifies what type of control to use.

VALUE
For textual/numerical controls, specifies the default value of the control. For Boolean controls, specifies the value to be returned when the control is turned on.

ISINDEX

Indicates the presence of a searchable index. With no arguments, ISINDEX displays the following message followed by a textbox: "You can search this index. Type the keyword(s) you want to search for:" When the user enters text and presses ENTER, that text is posted back to the page's URL as a query. Usually placed within the HEAD section.

ACTION
Specifies the gateway program to which the string in the text box should be passed.

PROMPT
Specifies a prompt to be used instead of the above.

<ISINDEX ACTION="search" PROMPT="Enter a keyword here">

KBD - keyboard text

Formats text in fixed-width and boldface type.

Example:
<KBD>Type this text</KBD>

Type this text would appear.

LI - list item

Specifies a new list item for DIR, MENU, OL, or UL list blocks.

TYPE
Changes the style of an ordered list. Codes: A=use large letters; a=use small letters; I=use large Roman numerals; i=use small Roman numerals; 1=use numbers.

VALUE
Changes the count of ordered lists as they progress.

<OL><LI>This is list item one. <LI VALUE=3>This is the second list item, but forced to be numbered 3.</OL>

This is list item one.
This is #3.

LISTING, PRE, TT, or XMP

Renders text in fixed-width type. LISTING, PRE, and XMP also instert linebreaks.

Example:
<TT>Typewriter Text</TT>

This example makes the Typewriter Text used in this document for examples.

MAP

Specifies a collection of hot spots for a client-side image map.

NAME
Specifies the map's name for reference in IMG tags.

<MAP NAME="imagemap"> <AREA...> </MAP>

MARQUEE

The new MARQUEE tag enables you to create a scrolling text marquee. Here is an example of one:

This is a scrolling marquee.

The HTML entry used to insert the marquee above is:
<MARQUEE BGCOLOR=#FFFFBB DIRECTION=RIGHT BEHAVIOR=SCROLL SCROLLAMOUNT=10 SCROLLDELAY=200> This is a scrolling marquee.</MARQUEE>

Marquees can be left- or right-aligned, like images, and have a variety of attributes to control them.

ALIGN
Specifies that the text around the marquee should align with the TOP, MIDDLE, or BOTTOM of the marquee: <MARQUEE ALIGN=MIDDLE>

BEHAVIOR
Specifies how the text should behave. SCROLL (the default) means start completely off one side, scroll all the way across and completely off, and then start again. SLIDE means start completely off one side, scroll in, and stop as soon as the text touches the other margin. ALTERNATE means bounce back and forth within the marquee: <MARQUEE BEHAVIOR=ALTERNATE>

BGCOLOR
Specifies a background color for the marquee, either as a RGB triple or using a "friendly" colorname.

DIRECTION
Specifies which direction the text should scroll (LEFT or RIGHT). The default is LEFT, which means scrolling to the left from the right.

HEIGHT
Specifies the height of the marquee, either in pixels or as a percentage of the screen height.

HSPACE
Specifies left and right margins for the outside of the marquee, in pixels.

LOOP
Specifies how many times a marquee will loop when activated. If n=-1, or if LOOP=INFINITE is specified, it will loop indefinitely.

SCROLLAMOUNT
Specifies the number of pixels between each successive draw of the marquee text (50 is very fast).

SCROLLDELAY
Specifies the number of milliseconds between each successive draw of the marquee text (5 is very fast).

VSPACE
Specifies top and bottom margins for the outside of the marquee, in pixels.

WIDTH
Sets the width of the marquee, either in pixels or as a percentage of the screen width.

MENU

Denotes a list of items. Used with <LI>.

Example:
<menu> <li>This is a menu item. <li>And this is another. </menu>

Yields:

This is a menu item.

And this is another.

META

The META tag is used within the HEAD section to define variables or specify other information for the web browser.

HTTP-EQUIV, CONTENT
Keywords. Use <META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT=2> to reload the document every two seconds.

NOBR

Turns off line breaking.

Example:
<nobr>Do not break this line of text that rambles on and on and on and on forever, or at least it seems like it does... forever and a day</nobr>

Do not break this line of text that rambles on and on and on and on forever, or at least it seems like it does... forever and a day

Specifies an ordered (numbered) list. Used with LI.

START
Specifies the starting number for the list. <OL START=3> starts numbering at three.

TYPE
A, a, l, I, or 1. Changes the style of the list. Codes: A=use large letters; a=use small letters; I=use large Roman numerals; i=use small Roman numerals; 1=use numbers.

Example:
<OL> <LI TYPE=A>This is item A. <LI TYPE=1>This is item 2. <LI TYPE=i>This is item iii. </OL>

This is item A.
This is item 2.
This is item iii.

Denotes a paragraph break. You may use <P> alone at the end of a line or denote paragraphs by <P>This is a paragraph. </P>.

ALIGN=CENTER
Specifies a centered paragraph when denoting lines:

<P ALIGN=CENTER>This paragraph should be centered.</P>

This paragraph should be centered.

PLAINTEXT

Renders text in fixed-width type without processing tags Also turns off HTML parsing until the </PLAINTEXT> tag.

S, STRIKE

Renders text in ~~strikethrough~~ type.

STYLE

The STYLE tag can be used to define custom styles. Applied to the entire document. Place the STYLE tag after HEAD and before BODY.

Example:
<style> </style>

This example makes the anchors appear without underlines, similar to this document.

TABLE, TR, TD

The TABLE tag defines a table, which you format using TR (to create rows) and TD (to create cells). You can also specify a CAPTION. Many of these options work with each of the TABLE, TR, and TD commands; TD attributes override TR and TABLE attributes, and TR attributes override the TABLE attributes.

ALIGN
LEFT, RIGHT, or CENTER Specifies the alignment of table text. <TABLE><TR><TD ALIGN=RIGHT></TD> </TR> </TABLE>

BGCOLOR
#rrggbb or colorname Sets the background color. <TABLE BGCOLOR=#CCCCCC></TABLE>

BORDER
Selects a border style for the table. <TABLE BORDER=2></TABLE>

BORDERCOLOR
#rrggbb or colorname Sets border color (must be used with BORDER attribute). <TABLE BORDER=1 BORDERCOLOR=RED> </TABLE>

BORDERCOLORLIGHT, BORDERCOLORDARK
#rrggbb or colorname Sets independent border color control over one of the two colors used to draw a 3-D border, opposite of one another, and must be used with the BORDER attribute. <TABLE BORDER=2 BORDERCOLORLIGHT=WHITE BORDERCOLORDARK=#000000> </TABLE>

CELLPADDING
Specifies the space between text and cell borders.

CELLSPACING
Specifies the space between cells. <TABLE CELLPADDING=3 CELLSPACING=1> </TABLE>

VALIGN
TOP, CENTER, or BOTTOM Specifies how the text is aligned vertically within the table.

TARGET

This feature gives the document writer a little control over where the data appears when a user clicks on a link in their document.

Previously when a user clicked on a link, the new document either appeared in the window the user had clicked in, or alternately (and under the user's control) it appeared in a new window. Targeting windows allows the document writer to assign names to specific windows, and target certain documents to always appear in the window bearing the matching name.

A name is assigned to a window in one of three ways:

A document can be sent with the optional HTTP header Window-target: window_name This will force the document to load in the window named window_name, or if such a window does not exist, one will be created, and then the document will be loaded in it.
A document can be accessed via a targeted link. In this case there is actual HTML which assigns a target window_name to a link. The document loaded from that link will behave as if it had a Window-target set as in method 1 above.
A window created within a frameset can be named using the NAME attribute to the FRAME tag.

Example:
TARGET="window_name"

TARGET in an A tag.
This is very straightforward. The anchor tag normally specifies a link to be loaded when the active item is clicked on, adding the TARGET attribute to the anchor tag forces the load of that link into the targeted window. Example:
<A HREF="url" TARGET="window_name">Targeted Anchor</A>

TARGET in the BASE tag.
This is used when you want all (or most) of the links in a document to be targeted to the same window. In this case the TARGET attribute establishes a default window_name that all links in this document will be targeted to. This default is of course overridden by specific instances of the TARGET attribute in individual anchor tags. Example:
<BASE TARGET="window_name">

TARGET in the AREA tag.
The IETF Internet-Draft of Client-Side Image Maps defines an area tag. This tag describes a shaped area in a client-side image map, and provides the link that should be followed when the user clicks there. Adding the TARGET attribute to the area tag forces the load of that link into the targeted window. Example:
<AREA SHAPE="shape" COORDS="x,y,..." HREF="url" TARGET="window_name">

TARGET in the FORM tag.
The form tag normally displays the results of a form submission in the same window the form was submitted from. By adding the TARGET attribute to the form tag, the result of the form submission is instead loaded into the targeted window. Example: <FORM ACTION="url" TARGET="window_name">

Allowed TARGET names
The window name specified by a TARGET attribute must begin with an alpha-numeric character to be valid. All other window names will be ignored.
Exception: There are magic target names that all begin with the underscore character.

Magic TARGET names

TARGET="_blank"
This target will cause the link to always be loaded in a new blank window. This window is not named.

TARGET="_self"
This target causes the link to always load in the same window the anchor was clicked in. This is useful for overriding a globally assigned BASE target.

TARGET="_parent"
This target makes the link load in the immediate FRAMESET parent of this document. This defaults to acting like "_self" if the document has no parent.

TARGET="_top"
This target makes the link load in the full body of the window. This defaults to acting like "_self" if the document is already at the top. It is useful for breaking out of an arbitrarily deep FRAME nesting.

TITLE

Specifies a title for the document, usually displayed as the browser's window caption. Used within the HEAD section.

Renders text underlined. Can be confused with linked text.

Creates an unordered (bulleted) list. Used with LI.

VAR

Renders text as a small fixed-width font.

Example:
<var>Here's some plain text.</var>

Here's some plain text.

WBR

Inserts a soft linebreak in a block of NOBR text.