HTML Cheatsheets or references for creating web pages that are displayed on the World Wide Web (websites). The pages can be a mix of text, images, videos, and other elements. It can be created with: notepad, TextPad or any text editors.
HTML
HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is used to give content to a web page and instructs web browsers on how to structure that content.
Structure
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html><body> tag or Element
The element represents the content of an HTML document. The content inside tags are rendered on the web browsers.
<body>
<h1>Welcome to MyCodeTips :)</h1>
</body><title> tag or Element
HTML Cheatsheets , The element contains a text that defines the title of an HTML document. The title is displayed in the browser’s title bar or tab in which the HTML page is displayed. The <title> element can only be contained inside a document’s <head> element.</p>
<title>Title of the HTML page</title><head> tag or Element
The element contains general information about an HTML page that isn’t displayed on the page itself. This information is called metadata and includes things like the title of the HTML document and links to stylesheets.
<head>
<!-- Metadata is contained in this element-->
</head>Headings <h1> – <h6> tags
There are six headings available in HTML, H1 is the largest among all, and H6 is the smallest.
<h1> Tag
<h1> Heading 1</h1>
<h2> Tag
<h2> Heading 2</h2>
<h3> Tag
<h3> Heading 3</h3>
<h4> Tag
<h4> Heading 4</h4>
<h5> Tag
<h5> Heading 5</h5>
<h6> Tag
<h6>Heading 6</h6>Container
Container tags are the tags that contain some data such as text, image, etc. There are several container tags in HTML.
<div> tag
div tag or division tag is used to make blocks or divisions in the document.
<div> This is div block </div><span> tag or Span Element
The element is an inline container for text and can be used to group text for styling purposes. However, as is a generic container to separate pieces of text from a larger body of text, its use should be avoided if a more semantic element is available.
<span> This is span block </span><p> tag
Paragraph tag
<p> This is a paragraph </p><pre> tag
pre tag represents pre-formatted text
<pre> Hello World </pre><code> tag
code tag is used to represent source codes
<code>
import excel
</code>Text Formatting
Text formatting tags are used to format text or data of HTML documents. You can do certain things like creating italic, bold, strong text to make your document look more attractive and understandable.
<b> tag
<b>I'm bold text</b>
<strong> tag
<strong>I'm important text</strong>
<i> tag
<i>I'm italic text</i>
<em> tag
<em>Emphasized text</em>
<sub> tag
<sub>Subscript</sub>
<sup> tag
<sup>Superscript</sup>Lists
Lists can be either numerical, alphabetic, bullet, or other symbols. You can specify list type and list items in HTML for the clean document.
<ol> tag or Ordered List Element
Ordered list starts with <ol> tag and each list item starts with <li> tag
<ol>
<li>Data 1</li>
<li>Data 2</li>
<li>Data 3</li>
</ol>
<ul> tag or Unordered List Element
<ul>
<li>Your Data</li>
<li>Your Data</li>
</ul>Media
Media is anything that is present in digital form such as image, video, audio, etc.
<audio> tag
It is used to embed sound content in the document.
<audio controls>
<source src="demo.mp3" type="audio/mpeg">
Your browser does not support the audio element.
</audio>
<img> tag
It is used to embed or import image in a webpage.
<img src="Source_of_image" alt="Alternate text">
<video> tag
It is used to embed video in the webpage.
<video width="480" height="320" controls>
<source src="demo_move.mp4" type="video/mp4">
Your browser does not support the video tag.
</video><table> tag
A table is a collection of rows and columns. It is used to represent data in tabular form.
Table Structure
<table>
<caption>Demo Table</caption>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Column1</th>
<th colspan="2">Column2</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Data1</td>
<td>Data2</td>
<td>Data2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Data1</td>
<td>Data2</td>
<td>Data2</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
<tfoot>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td>Data</td>
<td>Data</td>
</tr>
</tfoot>
</table>Links or Anchor Tag
Links are clickable text that can redirect you to some other page.
<a> tag
<a> or anchor tag defines a hyperlink.
<a href="https://mycodetips.com/">Visit mycodetips.com!</a>The target attribute on an ‘<a>’ anchor element specifies where a hyperlink should be opened. A target value of “_blank” will tell the browser to open the hyperlink in a new tab in modern browsers, or in a new window in older browsers or if the browser has had settings changed to open hyperlinks in a new window.
<form> tag
The form is used to collect user’s input, generally, the user’s data is sent to the server for further processing.
<form action="/action.php" method="post">
Name: <input name="name" type="text" /> <br />
Age: <input max="90" min="1" name="age" step="1" type="number" value="18" /> <br />
<select name="gender">
<option selected="selected" value="male">Male</option>
<option value="female">Female</option>
</select><br />
<input checked="checked" name="newsletter" type="radio" value="daily" /> Daily
<input name="newsletter" type="radio" value="weekly" /> Weekly<br />
<textarea cols="20" name="comments" rows="5">Comment</textarea><br />
<label><input name="terms" type="checkbox" value="tandc" />Accept terms</label> <br />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>Characters & Symbols
Some symbols are not directly present on the keyboard, but there are some ways to use them in HTML documents. We can display them either by entity name, decimal, or hexadecimal value.
Copyright Symbol (©)
©
Less than (<)
<
Greater than (>)
>
Ampersand (&)
&
Dollar ($)
$Semantic tags or elements
Semantic elements are those elements that are self describable, i.e., from their name itself, you can understand their meaning.
<section> tag
It defines a section in the document
<section>This is a section</section><article> tag
It represents self-contained content
<article> Enter your data here </article><aside> tag
It is used to place content in the sidebar
<aside> Your data </aside><hr> tag
<hr size = “” width = “”/width = “%” color = “” align = “left/center/right”>It’s just the beginning, HTML has a long list of elements, attributes, tags.
Happy Programming 🙂
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