HTML CheatSheet

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<!-- Document Summary -->

<!DOCTYPE html>                                   <!-- Tells the browser that HTML5 version of HTML to be recognized by the browser -->
<html lang="en"></html>                           <!-- The HTML lang attribute is used to identify the language of text content on the web. This information helps search engines return language specific results, -->
<head></head>                                     <!-- Contains Information specific to the page like title, styles and scripts -->
<title></title>                                   <!-- Title for the page that shows up in the browser title bar -->
<body></body>                                     <!-- Content that the user will see -->


<!-- Document Information -->


<base/>                                           <!-- Usefull for specifying relative links in a document -->
<style></style>                                   <!-- Contains styles for the html document -->
<meta/>                                           <!-- Contains additional information about the page, author, page description and other hidden page info -->
<script></script>                                 <!-- Contains all scripts internal or external -->
<link/>                                           <!-- Used to create relationships with external pages and stylesheets -->


<!-- Document Structure -->


<h1></h1> ... <h6></h6>                           <!-- All six levels of heading with 1 being the most promiment and 6 being the least prominent -->
<p></p>                                           <!-- Used to organize paragraph text -->
<div></div>                                       <!-- A generic container used to denote a page section -->
<span></span>                                     <!-- Inline section or block container used for creating inline style elements -->
<br/>                                             <!-- Creates a line-break -->
<hr>                                              <!-- Creates a sectional break into HTML -->


<!-- Text Formatting -->


<strong></strong> and <b></b>                     <!-- Makes text contained in the tag as bold -->
<em></em> and <i></i>                             <!-- Alternative way to make the text contained in the tag as italic -->
<strike></strike>                                 <!-- Creates a strike through the text element -->
<pre></pre>                                       <!-- Preformatted monospace text block with some spacing intact -->
<blockquote></blockquote>                         <!-- Contains long paragraphs of quotations often cited -->
<abbr></abbr>                                     <!-- Contains abbreviations while also making the full form avaialable -->
<address></address>                               <!-- Used to display contact information -->
<code></code>                                     <!-- Used to display inline code snippets -->


<!-- Links Formatting -->


<a href="url"></a>                                <!-- Used to link to external or internal pages of a wbesite -->
<a href="mailto:[email protected]"></a>           <!-- Used to link to an email address -->
<a href="name"></a>                               <!-- Used to link to a document element -->
<a href="#name"></a>                              <!-- Used to link to specific div element -->
<a href="tel://####-####-##"></a>                 <!-- Used to display phone numbers and make them clickable -->


<!-- Image Formatting -->


<img src="url" alt="text">                        <!-- Used to display images in a webpage where src="url" contains the link to the image source and alt="" contains an alternative text to display when the image is not displayed -->


<!-- List Formatting -->


<ol></ol>                                         <!-- Used to create ordered lists with numbers in the items -->
<ul></ul>                                         <!-- Used to display unordered lists with numbers in the items -->
<li></li>                                         <!-- Contains list items inside ordered and unordered lists -->
<dl></dl>                                         <!-- Contains list item definitions -->
<dt></dt>                                         <!-- Definition of single term inline with body content -->
<dd></dd>                                         <!-- The descrpition of the defined term -->


<!-- Forms Formatting and Attributes -->


<form action="url"></form>                        <!-- Form element creates a form and action="" specifies where the data is to be sent to when the visitor submits the form -->

<!-- Supported attributes -->
method="somefunction()"                           <!-- Contains the type of request (GET, POST... etc) which dictates how to send the data of the form -->
enctype=""                                        <!-- Dictates how the data is to be encoded when the data is sent to the web server. -->
autocomplete=""                                   <!-- Specifies if the autocomplete functionality is enabled or not -->
novalidate                                        <!-- Dictates if the form will be validated or not -->
accept-charset=""                                 <!-- Identifies the character encoding upon form submission -->
target=""                                         <!-- Tell where to display the information upon form submission. Possible values: '_blank', '_self', '_parent', '_top' -->

<fieldset disabled="disabled"></fieldset>         <!-- Identifies the group of all fields in the form -->
<label for=""></label>                            <!-- A simple field label telling the user what to type in the field -->
<legend></legend>                                 <!-- The form legend acts as a caption for the fieldset element -->

<input type="text/email/number/color/date">       <!-- Input is the input field where the user can input various types of data -->

<!-- Supported attributes -->
name=""                                           <!-- Describes the name of the form -->
width=""                                          <!-- Specifies the width of an input field -->
value=""                                          <!-- Describes the value of the input information field -->
size=""                                           <!-- Specifies the input element width in characters -->
maxlength=""                                      <!-- Specifies the maximum input character numbers -->
required=""                                       <!-- Specifies if the input field is required to fill in before submitting the form -->
step=""                                           <!-- Identifies the legal number intervals of the input field -->

<textarea name="" id="" cols="30" rows="10">      <!-- Specifies a large input text field for longer messages -->
</textarea>

<select name=""></select>                         <!-- Describes a dropdown box for users to select from variety of choices -->

<!-- Supported attributes -->
name=""                                           <!-- The name for a dropdown combination box -->
size=""                                           <!-- Specifies the number of available options -->
multiple                                          <!-- Allows for multiple option selections -->
required                                          <!-- Requires that a value is selected before submitting the form -->
autofocus                                         <!-- Specifies that the dropdown automatically comes to focus once the page loads -->
<optgroup></optgroup>                             <!-- Specifies the entire grouping of available options -->
<option value=""></option>                        <!-- Defines one of the avaialble option from the dropdown list -->
<button></button>                                 <!-- A clickable button to submit the form -->


<!-- Tables Formatting -->


<table></table>                                   <!-- Defines and contains all table related content -->
<caption></caption>                               <!-- A description of what table is and what it contains -->
<thead></thead>                                   <!-- The table headers contain the type of information defined in each column underneath -->
<tbody></tbody>                                   <!-- Contains the tables data or information -->
<tfoot></tfoot>                                   <!-- Defines table footer -->
<tr></tr>                                         <!-- Contains the information to be included in a table row -->
<th></th>                                         <!-- Contains the information to be included in a single table header -->
<td></td>                                         <!-- Contains actual information in a table cell -->
<colgroup></colgroup>                             <!-- Groups a single or multiple columns for formatting purposes -->
<col>                                             <!-- Defines a single column of information inside a table -->


<!-- Objects and iFrames -->


<object data=""></object>                         <!-- Describes and embed file type including audio, video, PDF's, images -->

<!-- Supported attributes -->
type=""                                           <!-- Describes the type of media embedded -->
height=""                                         <!-- Describes the height of the object in pixels -->
width=""                                          <!-- Describes the width of the object in pixels -->
usemap=""                                         <!-- This is the name of the client-side image map in the object -->

<iframe src="" frameborder="0"></iframe>          <!-- Contains an inline frame that allows to embed external information -->
<embed src="" type="">                            <!-- Acts as a container for external application or plug-in -->
src=""                                            <!-- The source of the external file you're embedding -->
width=""                                          <!-- Describes the width of the iframe in pixels -->


<!-- HTML5 New Tags -->


<header></header>                                 <!-- Defines the header block for a document or a section -->
<footer></footer>                                 <!-- Defines the footer block for a document or a section -->
<main></main>                                     <!-- Describes the main content of a document -->
<article></article>                               <!-- Identifies an article inside a document -->
<aside></aside>                                   <!-- Specifies content contained in a document sidebar -->
<section></section>                               <!-- Defines a section of a document -->
<details></details>                               <!-- Describes additonal information that user can view or hide -->
<dialog></dialog>                                 <!-- A dialog box or a window -->
<figure></figure>                                 <!-- An independent content block featuring images, diagrams or illustrations -->
<figcaption></figcaption>                         <!-- Caption that describe a figure -->
<mark></mark>                                     <!-- Displays a portion of highlighted text with in a page content -->
<nav></nav>                                       <!-- Navigation links for the user in a document -->
<menuitem></menuitem>                             <!-- The specific menu item that a usrr can raise from a pop up menu -->
<meter></meter>                                   <!-- Describes the scalar measurement with in a known array -->
<progress></progress>                             <!-- Displays the progress of a task usually a progress bar -->
<rp></rp>                                         <!-- Describes text within the browsers that do not support ruby notations -->
<rt></rt>                                         <!-- Displays east asian typography character details -->
<ruby></ruby>                                     <!-- Describes annotations for east asian typography -->
<summary></summary>                               <!-- Contains a visible heading for details element -->
<bdi></bdi>                                       <!-- Helps you format parts of text in a different direction than other text -->
<time></time>                                     <!-- Identifies the time and date -->
<wbr>                                             <!-- A line break within the content -->


<!-- Collective Character Obejcts -->


&#34; &quot; Quotation Marks - "
&#38; &amp; Ampersand - &
&#60; &lt; Less than sign - <
&#62; &gt; Greater than sign - >
&#160; &nbsp; Non-breaking space
&#169; &copy; Copyright Symbol - ©
&#64; &Uuml; @ symbol - @
&#149; &ouml; Small bullet - .
&#153; &ucirc; Trademark Symbol - ™