| tag | end tag | description |
| html | /html | these tags begin and end all of your html documents. tells the brower where the beginning and end are |
| head | /head | the very top of your document |
| title | /title | the only thing that goes in the head of your document see example 1 below |
| body | /body | these tags begin and end the main part of your document|
| pre | /pre | Place these tags at the beginning and end of a block of text to preserve your spacing see example 2 below |
| blockquote | /blockquote | place these tags at the beginning and end of a block of text to create a margin on either side. see example 3 below |
| center | /center | use these tags to center a line of text, or a table or a list |
| br | use this to force the end of a line of text where you want it. |
January February March April May
3. This text is an example of a blockquote. It looks quite nice sometimes to have the text indented on both sides. I have found that sometimes just making a block of text in this manner cleans up the document.
If you just use the body tag plain {body}, you will produce a document with default colors. Black text, white (or grey) background, and so forth. For special colors, you must include them in the body tag.
{body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#000ff" alink="#00ff00" vlink="#ff0000"}
bgcolor and text are self-explanitory. link is your hypertext link, alink is the color it turns when you click on it, and vlink is the color it turns after you use it. The color codes in the example stand for white, black, blue, green and red respectively. Color codes can be a combination of any numbers 0-9 or letters a-f, mostly in pairs (ff6633). Not all combinations show up on all browsers. I have found this chart helpful in choosing colors.