HTML Tag and Attribute Reference

<P>

Paragraph
<P> text
<P> text </P>
<P ALIGN=alignment> text
<P NOWRAP> text

The paragraph tag starts a new paragraph, equivalent to two BR tags. The </P> tag is optional if the tag is only to insert space between two paragraphs, but vital when attributes (for example, ALIGN="center") are to apply to the whole paragraph. The ALIGN attribute can be one of LEFT, RIGHT, or CENTER. The NOWRAP attribute will make it so lines are only broken at the <BR> tag.

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<PARAM>

Parameters
<PARAM NAME="name" VALUE="value">

This tag, valid only within an APPLET element, passes parameters to the applet, which gets them with the agetParameter() method.

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<PERSON>

<PERSON> text </PERSON>

The person tag is used around names of people mentioned in a document. It is typically displayed just like normal text, but is used by automatic indexers.

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<PLAINTEXT>

<PLAINTEXT> text </PLAINTEXT>

The plain text tag defines text that should be shown in a fixed width font with the line breaks and other whitespace specified by the page author. There is no need to use <BR> tags to indicate line breaks -- line breaks in the source will be displayed by the browser. In addition multiple spaces will be displayed as multiple spaces. HTML tags are not rendered.

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<PRE>

Preformatted Text
<PRE> text </PRE>
<PRE WIDTH=width> text </PRE>

The preformatted text tag defines text that should be shown in a fixed width font with the line breaks and other whitespace specified by the page author. There is no need to use <BR> tags to indicate line breaks -- line breaks in the source will be displayed by the browser. In addition multiple spaces will be displayed as multiple spaces. Typically used for several lines of program code or for poetry. The width attribute specifies the maximum number of characters per line.

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<Q>

QUOTE
<Q> text </Q>

The quote tag defines text that should be displayed as a short quote. For English language documents this means the text will be surrounded with double quote (") symbols. Quotes nested within quotes will typically be displayed surround by single quote (') symbols.

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<RANGE>

<RANGE FROM="from id UNTIL="until id>
The range tag, which is valid only in the HEAD section, defines a range within the document. The FROM and UNTIL attributes refer to ID's of tags within the document. The SPOT tag can be used to specify a location in the document where there is no other tag.

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