HTML Tag Reference This book lists all the HTML tags and attributes supported in Netscape Navigator 4.0 and earlier. This book was posted on 11/19/97. This tag reference replaces the previous HTML Reference Guide.

Last updated: 11/19/97.

Contents

About This Book    5

Comments    5

Tags for Document Structure    6

HTML    6

HEAD    6

BODY    7

Heading Tags    8

TITLE    9

BASE    9

META    10

STYLE    14

LINK    15

Block-Level Text Elements    15

ADDRESS    16

BLOCKQUOTE    16

DIV    17

H1 through H6    18

P    19

PRE    20

XMP    21

Lists    21

DIR    22

DL    22

DT    23

DD    24

MENU    24

OL    25

UL    26

LI    26

Text Characteristics    28

B    29

BASEFONT    29

BIG    29

BLINK    30

CITE    30

CODE    30

EM    31

FONT    31

I    32

KBD    33

PLAINTEXT    33

S    33

SMALL    33

STRIKE    34

STRONG    34

SUB    34

SUP    35

TT    35

U    35

VAR    35

Anchors and Links    36

A    36

Images and Image Maps    39

IMG    39

AREA    44

MAP    46

Image Maps    47

Tables    48

TABLE    48

CAPTION    52

TR    53

TD    53

TH    55

Forms    57

FORM    57

INPUT    61

SELECT    69

OPTION    71

TEXTAREA    72

KEYGEN    74

ISINDEX    75

Frames and Framesets    76

FRAME    76

FRAMESET    78

NOFRAMES    82

Positioning Content    82

LAYER    82

ILAYER    85

NOLAYER    86

Scripts    86

SCRIPT    86

NOSCRIPT    89

SERVER    89

Applets and Plug-ins    89

APPLET    90

PARAM    94

EMBED    94

NOEMBED    97

OBJECT    98

Formatting Tags    99

BR    100

CENTER    100

HR    101

MULTICOL    102

NOBR    103

SPACER    103

SPAN    105

WBR    105

Universal Attributes    106

URLS    107

Opening a Document in a Web Browser    107

Opening a Local File    107

Invoking JavaScript    108

Opening a Mail Message Window    108

Connecting to an FTP Server    109

Reading a News Group    110

Connecting to a Gopher Server    110

Invoking a CGI Program    110

Color Units    111

List of Categories of HTML Tags    111

List of Categories and HTML Tags    112

Alphabetical List of Tags    116