- a language that is recognized by most browsers used on the Internet
HTML
Tags
nesting tags
- must be entered at the beginning and end of your code
header area
title shown in title bar
actual content of page
paragraph tag
<p>
| </p>
attributes
- contain numbers or letters or specific location like left, right, center
values
main heading
<h1>
</h1>
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align
horizontal rules (lines)
- displayed in italics
<address>
| </address>
horizontal rule
<hr></hr>
indented quotation
<blockquote>
| </blockquote>
specifies line thickness in pixels
size=number
- table width set by pixels
width=number
- table width set by percent of screen size
width=number%
specifies that there is no shading on the rule
noshade
specifies left alignment attribute
align=left
specifies center alignment
align=center
specifies right alignment
align=right
ordered lists