Hey Devs, This is the most complete and well-structured HTML cheatsheet you can find online!!
So let's start.
Basic Tags
<html> </html> - Creates an HTML document
<head> </head> - Sets off the title & other info that isn't displayed
<body> </body> - Sets off the visible portion of the document
<title> </title> - Puts name of the document in the title bar; when
bookmarking pages, this is what is bookmarked
Formatting
<p> </p> - Creates a new paragraph
<br> - Inserts a line break (carriage return)
<blockquote> </blockquote> - Puts content in a quote - indents text from both sides
<div> </div> - Used to format block content with CSS
<span> </span> Used to format inline content with CSS
Body attributes
<body bgcolor="?"> - Sets background color, using a name or hex value
<body text="?"> - Sets text color, using name or hex value
<body link="?"> - Sets color of links, using name or hex value
<body vlink="?"> - Sets the color of visited links, using a name or hex value
<body alink="?"> - Sets the color of active links (while mouse-clicking)
Lists
<ul> </ul> - Creates an unordered list
<ol start=?> </ol> - Creates an ordered list (start=xx, where xx is a counting number)
<li> </li> - Encompasses each list item
<dl> </dl> - Creates a definition list
<dt> - Precedes each definition term
<dd> - Precedes each definition
Text Tags
<pre> </pre> - Creates preformatted text
<h1> </h1> --> <h6> </h6> - Creates headlines -- H1=largest, H6=smallest
<b> </b> - Creates bold text (should use instead)
<i> </i> - Creates italicized text (should use instead)
<tt> </tt> - Creates typewriter-style text
<code> </code> - Used to define source code, usually monospace
<cite> </cite> - Creates a citation, usually processed in italics
<address> </address> - Creates address section, usually processed in italics
<em> </em> - Emphasizes a word (usually processed in italics)
<strong> </strong> - Emphasizes a word (usually processed in bold)
<font size=?> </font> - Sets size of font - 1 to 7 (should use CSS instead)
<font color=?> </font> - Sets font color (should use CSS instead)
<font face=?> </font> - Defines the font used (should use CSS instead)
Graphical elements
<hr> - Inserts a horizontal rule
<hr size=?> - Sets size (height) of horizontal rule
<hr width=?> - Sets width of rule (as a % or absolute pixel length)
<hr noshade> - Creates a horizontal rule without a shadow
<img src="URL" /> - Adds image; it is a separate file located at the URL
<img src="URL" align=?> - Aligns image left/right/center/bottom/top/middle (use CSS)
<img src="URL" border=?> - Sets size of border surrounding image (use CSS)
<img src="URL" height=?> - Sets height of image, in pixels
<img src="URL" width=?> - Sets width of image, in pixels
<img src="URL" alt=?> - Sets the alternate text for browsers that can't process images (required by the ADA)
Links
<a href="URL">clickable text</a> - Creates a hyperlink to a Uniform Resource Locator
<a href="mailto:EMAIL_ADDRESS">clickable text</a> - Creates a hyperlink to an email address
<a name="NAME"> - Creates a target location within a document
<a href="#NAME">clickable text</a> - Creates a link to that target location
Forms
<form> </form> - Defines a form
<select multiple name=? size=?> </select> - Creates a scrolling menu. Size sets the number of menu items visible before user needs to scroll.
<select name=?> </select> - Creates a pulldown menu
<option> - Sets off each menu item
<textarea name=? cols="x" rows="y"></textarea> - Creates a text box area. Columns set the width; rows set the height.
<input type="checkbox" name=? value=?> - Creates a checkbox.
<input type="checkbox" name=? value=? checked> - Creates a checkbox which is pre-checked.`
<input type="radio" name=? value=?> - Creates a radio button.
<input type="radio" name=? value=? checked> - Creates a radio button which is pre-checked.
<input type="text" name=? size=?> - Creates a one-line text area. Size sets length, in characters.
<input type="submit" value=?> - Creates a submit button. Value sets the text in the submit button.
<input type="image" name=? src=? border=? alt=?> - Creates a submit button using an image.
<input type="reset"> - Creates a reset button
HTML5 input tag attributes
<input type="email" name=?> - Sets a single-line textbox for email addresses
<input type="url" name=?> - Sets a single-line textbox for URLs
<input type="number" name=?> - Sets a single-line textbox for a number
<input type="range" name=?> - Sets a single-line text box for a range of numbers
<input type="date/month/week/time" name=?> - Sets a single-line text box with a calendar showing the date/month/week/time
<input type="search" name=?> - Sets a single-line text box for searching
<input type="color" name=?> - Sets a single-line text box for picking a color
Tables
<table> </table> - Creates a table
<tr> </tr> - Sets off each row in a table
<td> </td> - Sets off each cell in a row
<th> </th> - Sets off the table header (a normal cell with bold, centered text)
Table attributes
<table border=?> - Sets the width of the border around table cells
<table cellspacing=?> - Sets the amount of space between table cells
<table cellpadding=?> - Sets the amount of space between a cell's border and its contents
<table width=?> - Sets the width of the table in pixels or as a percentage
<tr align=?> - Sets alignment for cells within the row (left/center/right)
<td align=?> - Sets alignment for cells (left/center/right)
<tr valign=?> - Sets vertical alignment for cells within the row (top/middle/bottom)
<td valign=?> - Sets vertical alignment for cell (top/middle/bottom)
<td rowspan=?> - Sets number of rows a cell should span (default=1)
<td colspan=?> - Sets the number of columns a cell should span
<td nowrap> - Prevents lines within a cell from being broken to fit
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Top comments (7)
20 years or more of writing HTML and I’ve never come across those body attributes before! 🤯
Actually you should not use them usually because CSS is there and it is more advanced than these attributes
That’s true, but I can think of a few cases where this would be really useful. Generating HTML reports at my last work place is the one that comes to mind.
Sometimes these are useful in newsletters
this can also be helpful ohmycheatsheet.com/html5-tags-inte...
Commands?
He wanted to say tag i think, but it would be the same as this other article: dev.to/devlorenzo/html-tags-cheat-...
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