HTML commands are not case sensitive. HTML tags are located between the <> brackets, but symbols are not. Below are some common HTML commands with descriptions.
| HTML Tag | Purpose of HTML Command |
| <html></html> | Open and close an html (hypertext markup language) page. |
| <head></head> | Open and close the head section, which contains information about each page, including the title, description, meta tags, etc. |
| <title>Page name goes here</title> | Open and close the title, which displays at the top of the browser window. |
| <meta name="description" content="Add your page description here."> | Some search engines use the description to rank the page and to display when listing the page. |
| <meta name="keywords" content="keyword, keyword"> | Some search engines use the keywords to rank the page. |
| <body></body> | Open and close the body section, which contains the information displayed in the browser window. |
| <p></p> | Open and close a paragraph. |
| <br> | Start a new line. |
| <b></b> | Start and end bold. |
| <i></i> | Start and end italics. |
| <hr> | Horizontal rule. |
| background="images/background.gif" | Background image of page located in the images folder. |
| bgcolor="#ff0000" | Background color of the page (red) using hexidecimal. |
| text="#00ff00" | Text color for the page (green) using hexidecimal. |
| link="#0000ff" | Link color for the page (blue) using hexidecimal. |
| vlink="red" | Visited link color for the page without hexidecimal. |
| alink="green" | Click on a link and it changes to this color. |
| <img src="images/photo.gif"> | Display an image located in the images folder. |
| <img src="images/photo.gif" alt="My Photo" width="50" height="75" border="0" align="right"> | Display an image with specific attributes. |
| <a href="mypage.html">My page</a> | Hyperlink to an html page located in the same folder. |
| <a href="../mypage.html">My page</a> | Hyperlink to an html page located in the parent folder. |
| <a href="http://www.rlwd.biz">My page</a> | Hyperlink to the home page of www.rlwd.biz. |
| <a href="mypage.html"><img src="images/photo.gif"></a> | Hyperlink to an html page located in the same folder using an image. |
| <font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva" size="2">Hi!</font> | Designate the font style and size of the text between the html tags. |
| | Spacer between text. |
| © | Copyright symbol. |
| • | Bullet point symbol. |
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