HTML Cheat Sheet

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You want to learn HTML, Right?

How many times have you Googled: 
“how to add forms in HTML”

or

Having an appropriate cheat sheet will make your life a tone of easier.
I've drilled down all the  standard HTML tags as well as the new HTMML5 tags in th given Cheat Sheet.

Enjoy!
Basic HTML Structure

<html>
 <head>
  <title>website title</title>
 </head>
 <body>
  content of website ...
 </body>
</html>


Common Tags for Blogs Text Formatting 

<h?> heading </h?>
Heading (h1 for largest to h6 for smallest)
<p> paragraph </p>
Paragraph of Text
<b> bold </b>
Make text between tags bold
<i> italic </i>
Make text between tags italic
<a href="url"> link name </a>
Create a link to another page or website
<div> ... </div>
Divide up page content into sections, and applying styles
<img src="filename.jpg">
Show an image
<ul> <li> list </li> </ul>
Unordered, bullet-point list
<br>
Line Break (force a new line)
<span style="color:red"> red </span>
Use CSS style to change text colour

Text Formatting 

<h?> ... </h?>
Heading (?= 1 for largest to 6 for smallest, eg h1)
<b> ... </b>
Bold Text
<i> ... </i>
Italic Text
<u> ... </u>
Underline Text
<strike> ... </strike>
Strikeout
<sup> ... </sup>
Superscript - Smaller text placed below normal text
<sub> ... </sub>
Subscript - Smaller text placed below normal text
<small> ... </small>
Small - Fineprint size text
<tt> ... </tt>
Typewriter Text
<pre> ... </pre>
Pre-formatted Text
<blockquote> ... </blockquote>
Text Block Quote
<strong> ... </strong>
Strong - Shown as Bold in most browsers
<em> ... </em>
Emphasis - Shown as Italics in most browsers
<font> ... </font>
Font tag obsolete,


Section Divisions 

<div> ... </div>
Division or Section of Page Content
<span> ... </span>
Section of text within other content
<p> ... </p>
Paragraph of Text
<br>
Line Break
<hr>
Basic Horizontal Line
<hr> Tag Attributes:
size="?"
Line Thickness in pixels
width="?"
Line Width in pixels
width="??%"
Line Width as a percentage
color="#??????"
Line Colour (*)
align="?"
Horizontal Alignment: left, center, right (*)
Noshade
No 3D cut-out
<nobr> ... </nobr>
Line Break


Images 
<img src="url" alt="text">
Basic Image
<img> Tag Attributes:
src="url"
URL or filename of image (required!)
alt="text"
Alternate Text (required!)
align="?"
Image alignment within surrounding text (*)
width="??"
Image width (in pixels or %)
height="??"
Image height (in pixels or %)
border="??"
Border thickness (in pixels) (*)
vspace="??"
Space above and below image (in pixels) (*)
hspace="??"
Space on either side of image (in pixels) (*)

Linking Tags 

<a href="url"> link text </a>
Basic Link
<a> Tag Attributes:
href="url"
Location (url) of page to link to.
name="??"
Name of link (name of anchor, or name of bookmark)
target="?"
Link target location: _self, _blank, _top, _parent.
href="url#bookmark"
Link to a bookmark (defined with name attribute).
href="mailto:email"
Link which initiates an email (dependant on user's email client).

List 

<ol> ... </ol>
Ordered List
<ul> ... </ul>
Un-ordered List
<li> ... </li>
List Item (within ordered or unordered)
<ol type="?">
Ordered list type: A, a, I, i, 1
<ol start="??">
Ordered list starting value
<ul type="?">
Unordered list bullet type: disc, circle, square
<li value="??">
List Item Value (changes current and subsequent items)
<li type="??">
List Item Type (changes only current item)
<dl> ... </dl>
Definition List
<dt> ... </dt>
Term or phrase being defined
<dd> ... </dd>
Detailed Definition of term

Tables  

<table> ... </table>
Define a Table
<table> Tag Attributes: 
border="?"
Thickness of outside border
bordercolor="#??????"
Border Colour
cellspacing="?"
Space between cells (pixels)
cellpadding="?"
Space between cell wall and content
align="??"
Horizontal Alignment: left, center, right (*)
bgcolor="#??????"
Background Colour (*)
width="??"
Table Width (pixels or %) (*)
height="??"
Table Height (pixels or %) (*)
<tr> ... </tr>
Table Row within table
<th> ... </th>
Header Cell within table row
<td> ... </td>
Table Cell within table row
<td> Tag Attributes:
colspan="?"
Number of columns the cell spans across (cell merge)
rowspan="?"
Number of row a cell spans across (cell merge)
width="??"
Cell Width (pixels or %) (*)
height="??"
Cell Height (pixels or %) (*)
bgcolor="#??????"
Background Colour (*)
align="??"
Horizontal Alignment: left, center, right (*)
valign="??"
Vertical Alignment: top, middle, bottom (*)
nowrap
Force no line breaks in a particular cell

Frames 

<frameset> ... </frameset>
Define the set of Frames
<frameset> Tag Attributes:
rows="??,??, ..."
Define row sizes & number of rows (size in pixels or %)
cols="??,??, ..."
Define column sizes & number of columns (size in pixels or %)
noresize="noresize"
User cannot resize any frames in frameset
<frame> ... </frame>
Define a frame within the frameset
<frame> Tag Attributes:
src="url"
Location of HTML File for a frame
name="***"
Unique name of frame window
marginwidth="?"
Horizontal margin spacing inside frame (pixels)
marginheight="?"
Vertical margin spacing inside frame (pixels)
noresize="noresize"
Declare all frameset sizes as fixed
scrolling="***"
Can the user scroll inside the frame: yes, no, auto
frameborder="?"
Frame Border: (1=yes, 2=no)
bordercolor="#??????"
Border Colour (*)
<noframes> ... </noframes>
Unframed content (for browsers not supporting frames)


Forms 

<form> ... </form>
Form input group decleration
<form> Tag Attributes:
action="url"
URL of Form Script
method="***"
Method of Form: get, post
enctype="***"
For File Upload: enctype="multipart/form-data"
<input> ... </input>
Input field within form
<input> Tag Attributes:
type="***"
Input Field Type: text, password, checkbox, submit etc.
name="***"
Form Field Name (for form processing script)
value="***"
Value of Input Field
size="***"
Field Size
maxlength="?"
Maximum Length of Input Field Data
checked
Mark selected field in radio button group or checkbox
<select> ... </select>
Select options from drop down list
<select> Tag Attributes:
name="***"
Drop Down Combo-Box Name (for form processing script)
size="?"
Number of selectable options
multiple
Allow multiple selections
<option> ... </option>
Option (item) within drop down list
<option> Tag Attributes:
value="***"
Option Value
selected
Set option as default selected option
<textarea> ... </textarea>
Large area for text input
<textarea> Tag Attributes:
name="***"
Text Area Name (for form processing script)
rows="?"
Number of rows of text shown
cols="?"
Number of columns (characters per rows)
wrap="***"
Word Wrapping: off, hard, soft


Special Characters 

&lt;
< - Less-Than Symbol
&gt;
> - Greater-Than Symbol
&amp;
& - Ampersand, or 'and' sign
&quot;
" - Quotation Mark
&copy;
© - Copyright Symbol
&trade;
™ - Trademark Symbol
&nbsp;
  - A space (non-breaking space)
&#??;
ISO 8859-1 character - replace ?? with the iso code

Miscellaneous Tags 

<!-- ... -->
Comment within HTML source code
<!DOCTYPE html ... >
Document Type Definitioni
<meta> ... </meta>
META information tag 
<meta > Tag Attributes:
name="***"
Meta name: description, keywords, author
http-equiv="***"
HTTP Equivalent Info: title, etc.
content="***"
Information content
<link>
LINK content relationship tag 
<link> Tag Attributes:
rel="***"
Type of forward relationship
http="url"
Location (URL) of object or file being linked
type="***"
Type of object or file, eg: text/css
title="***"
Link title (optional)


Body Background & Colours 

<body> Tag Attributes:

background="url"
Background Image (*)
bgcolor="#??????"
Background Colour (*)
text="#??????"
Document Text Colour (*)
link="#??????"
Link Colour (*)
vlink="#??????"
Visited Link Colour (*)
alink="#??????"
Active Link Colour (*)
bgproperties="fixed"
Background Properties - "Fixed" = non-scrolling watermark (*)
leftmargin="?"
Side Margin Size in Pixels (Internet Explorer) (*)
topmargin="?"
Top Margin Size in Pixels (Internet Explorer) (*)

(*) Important Notice 

Tags marked with (*) should still work, but have been replaced by Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Which is now the recommended way to change the font, colour, spacing, border or alignment of HTML elements.

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