HTML Editor: HTML Cheat Sheet

<i></i>

Italicizes text

This is <i>italic</i> text.

This is italic text.

<b></b>

Bolds text

This text is <b>bold</b>.

This text is bold.

<u></u>

Underlines text

This text is <u>underlined
</u>.

This text is underlined.



Text is subscripted

H₂O

H₂O



Text is superscripted

x²

x²

<br>

Inserts a line break

The quick <br>
brown fox <br>
jumped <br>
over the <br>
lazy dog

The quick
brown fox
jumped
over the
lazy dog

<hr>

Inserts a horizontal line

Here is a horizontal line:
<hr>

Here is a horizontal line:

<a href=
"URL">
LINK TEXT
</a>

Format text as a hyperlink, linking to an outside web page

Visit  <a href=
"http://www.osu.edu">
the OSU website
</a>

Click here to open the OSU web page

<a href=
"URL#
anchor">
LINK TEXT
</a>

Format text as a hyperlink, linking to a section on a web page.  Uses an anchor to link to the section.

<a href=
"http://www.osu.edu#
news">

(same as above)

<a name=
"anchor">
</a>

Creates an anchor, used with the <a href> tag.

<a name="syllabus">
<a>

Syllabus (Anchors do not change the way information is displayed)

<a href=
"mailto:">
LINK TEXT
</a>

Creates a link to send an email to someone

Email<a href=
"mailto:
name.n@osu.edu">
name.n@osu.edu
</a>

Click here to send me mail!

<embed src="URL">

Inserts an object (like a video clip) into a page

<embed src=
"http://video.mpg"> or
<embed src="volcano.mov" width=160 height=136 autoplay=false controller=true loop=false> </embed>

Multimedia clip would be shown (doesn't translate well into paper format)

<img src=
"filename/ URL">

Inserts a graphic.  Graphic can be on the current site or from a separate site (may need to look at source code)

<img src="information.gif">
or
<img src=
"http://www.osu.edu/
graphics/telrtitle.jpg">

<img src=
"file or URL" ALT=
"text if picture is not displayed">

Displays text if the image can not be displayed, also presents pop-up box with text if picture is displayed

<img src ="information.gif"
alt="Attention">

&lt;

Less than

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