When a tag has attributes, there must also be a closing tag. The closing tag does not contain any attributes or values.
Example: <p align="center">Text to Center</p>.
Attributes to Use with the Body Tag
Use only one body tag in your page!
| Attribute | Purpose and Syntax |
| background | Opens one large image or a small tiled image as the background: <body background="images/graphicname.gif"> Tiled means that a small image prints across the page multiple times. |
| bgproperties | Allows you to fix the background so your text moves but the background image does not. <body background="images/graphicname.gif" bgproperties="fixed"> Here is an example of this effect. |
| bgcolor | Sets the background color for the whole page: <body bgcolor="green"> or <body bgcolor="#339966"> (We will learn more about hexadecimal color codes later.) |
| text | Sets the default text color for the whole page: <body text="white"> or <body text="#ffffff"> |
| link | Sets the default text color for links: <body link="yellow"> or <body link="#ffff33"> |
| alink | Sets the default text color for active links. An active link is a link that is in the process
of being clicked. <body alink="blue"> or <body alink="#0000ff"> |
| vlink | Sets the default text color for visited links. A visited link is a link that
has been clicked previously. <body vlink="purple"> or <body vlink="#663399"> |
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Attributes can be combined in a tag: <body bgcolor="green" text="white" link="yellow" alink="blue" vlink="purple"> Remember! Only one body tag on each web page! | |
Attributes to Use with the Font Tag
This is a deprecated tag, but we will use it while we are learning HTML.
| Attribute | Purpose and Syntax | Values |
| face | Sets the font for the text between font tags. <font face="verdana,helvetica,arial"> | font names separated by a comma (,) |
| size | Sets the size for the text between font tags. <font size="2"> | 1, 2, 3, 4, -1, -2, -3, -4 +1, +2, +3, +4 |
| color | Sets the color for the text between the font tags. <font color="red"> or <font color="#ff0000"> | 16 preset colors or 216 hexadecimal codes |
| Attributes can be combined in a font tag: <font face="helvetica,arial" size="2" color="red"> | ||
Attributes to Use with the Paragraph Tag, Heading Tags, etc.
| Attribute | Purpose and Syntax | Values |
| align | Sets the text alignment for text within the tags. <p align="center">Text</p> <h1 align="center">Heading</h1> The above tags center text on a web page. When the paragraph tag contains attributes, there must be a closing tag. | Right, left, center |
Attributes to Use with the Horizontal Rule Tag
The <HR /> tag requires a closing "/" in XHTML, the latest version of HTML.
| Attribute | Purpose and Syntax | Values |
| width | Sets the width of the horizontal rule. <hr width="40%" /> or <hr width="100" /> | A percentage or a number representing the pixel width. |
| size | Sets the height of the horizontal rule. <hr size="5" /> | A number representing the height. |
Attributes to Use with List Tags
| Attribute | Purpose and Syntax |
| type="A" | Sets an ordered list to uppercase letters <ol type="A"> |
| type="a" | Sets an ordered list to lowercase letters <ol type="a"> |
| type="I" | Sets an ordered list to Roman numerals <ol type="I"> |
| type="i" | Sets an ordered list to lowercase Roman numerals <ol type="i"> |
| start="4" | Sets an ordered list to begin at 4 <ol start="4"> |
| type="disc" | Sets an unordered list to to filled circles (bullets) <ol type="disc"> |
| type="square" | Sets an unordered list to to filled squares <ol type="square"> |
| type="circle" | Sets an unordered list to to open circles (bullets) <ol type="circle"> |
You can use a series of attributes and values in a single tag. They do not have to be in any special order.
Just space once
between each, e.g., <font color="red" size="4">.