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Body tags BACKGROUND="URL" Sets the background of the page to a specified picture. Not all browsers allow backgrounds. HTML 3.0 tag. BGCOLOR="color" Sets the background to an RGB color, normally gray. "color" is #rrggbb, where rr the red component in hex, gg the green and bb the blue. "color" may also be some usual color, like "red" or "black". TEXT="color" Sets the standard color of the text, normally black. LINK="color" Sets the color of the unvisited links, normally blue. VLINK="color" Sets the color of the visited links, normally magneta. ALINK="color" Sets the color of the links in the moment the user clicks on them, normally red. must end with Head tag Starts the page. Must end with text Use it inside the tag. (Can be outside, but it's not recomended.) "text" the title of the page. In Netscape 1.1N (no other browsers, no other versions of Netscape) can you animate the title by inserting more than one TITLE tag. Other tags Starts and ends the HTML document. Must end with Sets the standard URL for files used in the page. Make it possible to set a pictures path to just the name, if it is in the BASE HREF folder. Tells the browser to reload the page every nth second. Not all browsers support this tag. Must be in the first line of the document to work. You can load different pages by specify different URL's. Links text or picture URL is the path to the linked file, e.g. a page, picture or a sound. #chapter is a specified part of a linked page. To link to an email address, use HREF=mailto:email where email is the address. TARGET is a Netscape HTML extension, not supported by all browsers, which opens the link in a new document named "text". text or picture Defines a new chapter on a page. "text" will not show up for the user and can be anything at all. Noembed is a Netscape tag. Links within this tag is displayed within the WWW page, via a plug-in. If the user has another browser, the link will be displayed as usual. Examples of this plug-in links can be Quicktime films. Must end with The linked text will show up in a different color, usually blue (or magneta if the user has visited the linked site) You can change the color with the BODY command, see the chapters menu. Pictures will have a blue or magneta border, usually 1 dot width. You can change the width, or remove the entire border, with the IMG tag, see the "Pictures" chapter. Lists There are three different list styles. All of them can include new lists. ¥ unordered list 2. ordered list definition list text, text, text Unordered list

Stands for 'underordered list'. Starts a new underordered list. The bullet (¥) can be changed with TYPE, between DISC (¥), CIRCLE (¡) and SQUARE (Û). Must end with

Stands for 'list insert'. Starts a new line. Use it inside a

). START starts the numeration at n. Must end with

Stands for 'list insert'. Works in the same way as in an underordered list. Must end with

Starts a definited list. Must end with

Stands for 'defined tag'. Insert a new 'header' in the list. The text shows up in bold. Must end with

Use it to display normal text in a new line inside the list. Must end with

Start the new menu list. DINGBAT is the name of a icon which will start the line. Can be "text.document", a icon of a small text file, "no" which is no dingbat at all or about 30 others. Paragraphes
Begin a new line under the startpoint of the current line. Use
to make the line start in the left or right margin, if you e.g. have a picture on the side of the text. Use CLEAR=ALL if you have pictures on both side of the text. Stands for 'No Break'. Use it if you want the text inside the tag to appears on the same line. Don't forget to end with . Stands for 'word break'. Starts a new line if the browser need to. Use it e.g. inside a long word.

Stands for 'paragraph'. Use it to start a new paragraph. Use ALIGN to start the line in the left, right or center part of the page. Justify makes straight margins. NAME is optional, and used as an anchor. Please read the Links chapter for more.

can end with

, but it's optional. Most of the parameters are HTML 3.0 tags. Use it to center text and pictures. Netscape tag. Must end with .

Use it to separate a text from the rest of the page.

Make the browser to use the same textstyles as in the HTML
 code, including wordwraps. WIDTH=n sets a maximum width of
 the text. Link tags () works within a  text.
 Must end with 


Use it to make the text blink. Must end with 

 
 Comments between  are igonored by the browser.

 
 Aligns text, pictures and other contents together.
 Netscape 2.0 tag. I think it must end with .

Rulers	


Use it to insert a horizontal line to separate text.
 The following tags can be used:

SIZE=n
Sets the height of the line in dots. Standard is 1.

WIDTH=n|n%
Sets the width of the line, either in dots or in percent.
 Standard is 100%. Netscape tag.

ALIGN=LEFT|RIGHT|CENTER
Sets the align of the line. Netscape tag.

NOSHADE
Remove the 3D-look from the line. Netscape tag.


Pictures	


Use it to insert pictures inside the pages. The following
 tags can be used after IMG:

SRC="URL"
The path or destination to the picture file. Can be the
 whole URL or just the filename, if the file is located
 in the same folder as the rest of the page.

ALT="text"
Use it to display text if the picture, by some reason,
 can't be loaded. This happens if the filepath is wrong,
 if the user stops the loading or the browser can't read
 pictures.

LOWSRC="URL"
Use it to display a preview of the picture, e.g. a well
 compressed picture. The LOWSRC picture loads first, while
 the SRC picture won't load before the page is done.

HEIGHT=n|n%
Changes the height of the picture in dots or percent.

 WIDTH=n|n%
Changes the width of the picture in dots or percent.

ISMAP
Define that the picture is a imagemap, which means that
 it use the picture as links, defined where on the picture
 the user clicks. Please read the Maps chapter for more.

BORDER=n
Define the width of the border around the picture in dots.
 The picture will only get a border if it is a link.

VSPACE=n
Define the vertical space to the text next to the picture.

 HSPACE=n
Define the horizontal space to the text next to the
 picture.

 ALIGN=LEFT|RIGHT|TOP|TEXTTOP|MIDDLE|ABSMIDDLE|BASELINE
 |BOTTOM|ABSBOTTOM
Align the picture on the page. Left and right aligns the
 picture to the left resp. right side of the page. TOP
 puts the top side of the picture in the same height as
 the highest thing on the line. TEXTTOP does the same with
 the highest character on the line. MIDDLE aligns the
 picture to the center of the baseline of the textline,
 while ABSMIDDLE aligns it to the center of the middleline
 of the text.BASELINE and BOTTOM put the bottom line of the
 pictures on the same height as the baseline of the textline.
 ABSBOTTOM put it on the same height as the bottom thing on
 the text line, e.g. in characters like g, j etc.

Picture formats	

 The picture should be either in the gif or jpeg formats.
 Other file formats requires a special helper application or
 plugin for the reader, and isn't recomended. The gif format
 is devloped by Compuserve, and allows transparency pictures,
 interlacted pictures (where it is displayed while it loads)
 and can be used as webmaps (please read the Maps chapter).
 Jpeg (Joint Photographers Expert Group) compresses the picture
 to be smaller than a gif file, without making any big changes
 to the quality. Netscape 2.0 can read "progressive JPEG", which
 has the same features as the gif format, but it isn't supported
 by other browsers, and not recomended.

 Special characters	

 Special chractersis written either with the code,
 or as &#ascii; where ascii is the ascii code for
 the character.

character  ASCII    tag

"         34     "
&         38     &
<         60     <
>         62     >
Ë        192     À
ç        193     Á
å        194     Â
Ì        195     Ã
€        196     Ä
        197     Å
®        198     Æ
‚        199     Ç
é        200     È
ƒ        201     É
æ        202     Ê
è        203     Ë
í        204     Ì
ê        205     Í
ë        206     Î
ì        207     Ï
„        209     Ñ
ñ        210     Ò
î        211     Ó
ï        212     Ô
Í        213     Õ
…        214     Ö
¯        216     Ø
ô        217     Ù
ò        218     Ú
ó        219     Û
†        220     Ü
         221     Ý
_        222     Þ
§        223     ß
ˆ        224     à
‡        225     á
‰        226     â
‹        227     ã
Š        228     ä
Œ        229     å
¾        230     æ
        231     ç
        232     è
Ž        233     é
        234     ê
‘        235     ë
“        236     ì
’        237     í
”        238     î
•        239     ï
Ý        240     ð
–        241     ñ
˜        242     ò
—        243     ó
™        244     ô
›        245     õ
š        246     ö
¿        248     ø
        249     ù
œ        250     ú
ž        251     û
Ÿ        252     ü
à        253     ý
_        254     þ
Ø        255     ÿ

  insert a hard space.

Tables	
 
 
 Start tag of a table. Must end with the  tag.
 Following parameters are allowed:

 BORDER=n
 Gives the table a 3D-look. n is the width of the border
 in dots.

 CELLSPACING=n
 Sets the space between cells in dots.

 CELLPADDING=n
 Sets the space between the contains of the cells to the
 cells border.

 WIDTH=n|n%
 Sets the width of the table in dots or in percent of the
 page.

Table tags	

 text
 "text" will be the tables header. Use this tag inside the
  tag, but not within lines. You can show the
 header over or under the TABLE by setting ALIGN to TOP
 resp. BOTTOM.

 
 Start a new line in the table. ALIGN sets the horizontal
 adjusments for the lines text and VALIGN the vertical
 adjustment. Must end with 
 TD and TH insert a new cell. TH stands for 'table header'
 and shows up the contents of the cell in bold. ALIGN
 sets the adjustments of the text. NOWRAP prevents the
 browser from wrapping the cell contents. COLSPAN can be
 used to let the cell go over more than one column. Normal
 is 1. ROWSPAN is the same thing, but let the cell go over
 more than one line. Normal settings is 1. WIDTH sets the
 width of the cell. Must end with 


Physical Styles	

   Bold

   Italic

  Monotype font, usually Courier

    Strike through style. HTML 3.0 tag.

 ^{Stands for 'superscript'. HTML 3.0 tag.

 _{Stands for 'subscript'. HTML 3.0 tag.

 All physical styles must end with , for example}}

Change textsize	


n is a number between 1 (smallest text) and 7 (largest).
 You can also increase reduce the size, for example +3.
 COLOR is an RGB color value (rrggbb, please read Body and
 head tags for more information) or the name of an usual
 color such like "red" or "black". Must end with .
 Netscape HTML extension, not supported by all browsers.


Sets the standard size of the text.


 Change the size of a header. n is a number between
 1 (largest) and 6 (smallest). When starting a new header,
 it will always begin in a new line. The text will
 normalize after the headers end. Must end with 
 Some HTML 3.0 parameters are available, such like ALIGN,
 DINGBAT, NOWR and CLEAR. More information about these
 parameters can be founded in the Links and Paragraphs
 chapters.

 
 Makes the text big. HTML 3.0 tag. Must end with .

 
 Makes the text small. HTML 3.0 tag. Must end with .
 
Logical Styles	


Emphasized text text. Shows up in italic.


 Titles.Shows up in italic.


Machinecode. Shows up in a typewriter font e.g. courier.


Stands for 'user keyboard entry', when you want the user
 to type in a text. Shows up in a typewriter font, e.g.
 courier. Sometimes bold.


Stands for 'computer status message'. Shows up in a
 typewriter font, e.g. Courier.


Strongly emphasized text. Shows up in bold.


Stands for 'variable'. Shows up in italic.

 
 Defines a text. Shows up in italic. HTML 3.0 tag.

 
 Stands for "Short quotation". HTML 3.0 tag.

 
 HTML 3.0 tag. Not sure about how it is displayed.

 
 Stands for "Author name". HTML 3.0 tag.

 All logical styles must end with , for example 

About Maps	

Webmaps is also called clickable pictures. When the
 user click on the picture, he's linked to different
 pages depending on where on the picture he clicked.
 A map isn't written in the same way as a HTML file.

 Webmaps consists of two files, a gif picture and the
 map file. It's written in a special file, and must be
 supported by the server. Talk to the administrator
 to find out if the server support maps. If it does,
 it can either be in CERN format, NCSA format or both.
 CERN is the company which originally developed the
 WWW, and NCSA has created, for example, Mosaic. Maps
 uses a cgi-script (like a program) to run, but you
 can define the map within the HTML file if the user
 has Netscape 2.0 or later. This method isn't prefered
 since it's not a standard and won't work in other
 browsers. (Unlike some other Netscape tags, this tag
 isn't supported at all in other browsers)

NCSA format	

In the NCSA format, all objects are separated with
 return characters. The list of objects starts with
 the objects ordered from the front to the back. It
 ends with the default url.

 # text
 Defines a comment, not used by the browser.

 rect url x,y x,y
 Defines a rectangle.

 circle url x,y x,y
 Defines a circle. x,y is the center point and the edge point.

oval url x,y x,y
 Defines an oval. x,y x,y is the rectangle of the oval.

 poly url x,y...x,y
 Defines a polugon. Each 'x,y' specifies a point.

 point url x,y
 Defines a point at x,y.

 default url
 Defines the default URL (locations where no other
 objects are defined. Must be after the objects.

url is always the URL (address) to the page which
 will be linked.
 
CERN format	

 In the CERN format, all objects are separated with
 return characters. The list of objects starts with
 the default url, followed by the objects ordered
 from the back to the front.

# text
 Defines a comment, not used by the browser.

 default url
 Defines the default URL (locations where no other
 objects are defined. Must be before the objects.

 rect (x,y) (x,y) url
 Defines a rectangle.

 circle (x,y) rad url
 Defines a circle specified by it's center point and radius.

poly (x,y)...(x,y) url
 Defines a new polygon specified by a number of (x,y)'s.

 url is always the URL (address) to the page which
 will be linked.

Netscape map format	

 I don't like these maps myself, so I haven't tested these
 tags. Included for reference only.

 
 Start tag of the map definition. Must end with 

 
 Map object, specified by the x,y,x,y rectangle.
 
Default file	

 This is a default HTML document. It's a plain
 WWW page which includes a title, a background
 picture (in a file named "bg.gif"), a header and
 your email adress as a link.


  Title 
 

  Header 

Text

 
 Last updated ... 

 Mail me!
 

Forms	


 This is the start tag of a new form. ACTION is the URL of a
 cgi script, an email or a page to which it will be sended.
 METHOD is either "post" or "get", depending how to send the
 information. ENCTYPE is the encryption type, for example MIME.
 SCRIPT is the client side URL script. Must end with 

 
 INPUT is a form object, for example a field. The following
 parameters are allowed:

 NAME=text
 The name of the object. The result will be sent as name=value

 TYPE=text
 Defines the object type. Can be either TEXT (Text field), INT
 (Number field), PASSWORD (Password field, characters is viewed
 as bullets, ¥), RADIO (radio button, only one can be checked),
 CHECKBOX (Hilited or not), HIDDEN (A hidden textfield), FILE
 (A special button which will ask the user for a file to upload.
 Requires special cgi-scripts and servers.), SUBMIT (a button
 used to send the form) and RESET (a button which reset all
 objects to its default values). An object of the type SUBMIT
 must be included to make the form to work.

 VALUE=text
 Is the default value of the object, for example "Hello" in
 a text field. If TYPE is RADIO or CHECK, VALUE is returned
 if the radiobutton or checkbox is checked. May be used in
 all objects.

 SIZE=n
 Defines the width of the object in pixels. Don't needed in
 all objects, for example not in buttons.

 MAXLENGTH=n
 Defines the max length of the value, for example 3 (characters).
 Needed in almost the same objects as the SIZE parameter.

 CHECKED
 Set the hilite of a radiobutton or checkbox to true as default.
 Not used in other objects.

Other form objects	

 .
 NAME is the object name and SIZE the number of rows. If the
 optional MULTIPLE parameter is used, the object will be a list.
 If not, it will show up as a popup button. Multiple items can
 be hilited in a list by holding the command and control keys
 down. Use the following tag within the  Insert a scrolling text field. COLS is the number or columns
 (horizontal characters). WRAP is a Netscape tag and set the
 text aling of the textfield. Must end with . The
 text between the start and end tag is the default text in the
 box, for example Hello.