The HTML Elements (i - z)

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`<p> paragraph`

Used to indicate a new paragraph. Automatically inserts a blank line before the new paragraph.

align="left | center | right"
Left, centre or right justifies a paragraph.

A paragraph. <p align="center">The next paragraph, centered.
A paragraph.
The next paragraph, centered.

`<pre> pre-formatted text`

The most useful application of this element is for displaying extracts of programming code as the text is rendered as a fixed-width font and the <br> tag is not necessary to cause a line-break. It is sometimes used to display text in a tabular or column format, as all spaces typed in the HTML code are displayed by the browser. Combined with the fixed-width font, this facilitates the alignment of text.

I do not recommend the use of <pre> for formatting a few words at a time, as unpredicable results are occasionly produced. Use <code> or <tt> as an alternative.


<pre>

FOR x=1 TO 10

PRINT "The square of ";x;" is ";x^2

NEXT x

</pre>

FOR x=1 TO 10
PRINT "The square of ";x;" is ";x^2
NEXT x

Group S

`<select> form list box`

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`<strong>`

A logical style used to give strong emphasis to a section of text. Usually rendered in bold. See also: <em>.


<strong>Warning: <strong>

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Warning:

`<sub> subscript`

A physical style for displaying subscripted text.


Sulphuric acid, H<sub>2</sub>S0<sub>4</sub>.

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`<sup> superscript`

A physical style for displaying superscripted text.


Equation of a circle: r<sup>2</sup> = x<sup>2</sup> + y<sup>2</sup>.

Group T

`<table>`

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`<td> table data`

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`<textarea> form input box`

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`<th> table heading`

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`<title>`

The title element should contain a complete one-line summary of the document, ie. "Introduction" is not sufficient, but "HTML Commands Guide: Introduction" would suffice. The title of a loaded document appears at the top of a Netscape window. When coding, the title should be placed within the <head> tags.
A shell document would therefore follow the following format:


<html>

<head>

<title>HTML Commands Guide: A Shell Document</title>

</head>

<body>

The document in here

</body>

</html>

`<tr> table row`

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`<tt> typewriter text`

A physical style for displaying text in a fixed-width font. See also <code> and <pre>.


Courier is an example of a <tt>fixed-width font</tt>, as is MS LineDraw.

fixed-width font

Group U

`<ul> unordered list`

Described on a separate page dedicated to lists.