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<IMG SRC="URL"> inserts image at URL into document
<IMG SRC="URL" ALT="string"> displays string for non-graphical browsers instead of image
<IMG SRC="URL" ALIGN="top|middle|bottom"> sets alignment of text after image


Body Attributes

<BODY Background="URL"> sets background texture to image at URL
<BODY Bgcolor="#RRGGBB"> sets background to color with red, green, blue values given by hexidecimal RR, GG, BB
<BODY Text="#RRGGBB"> sets text color
<BODY Link="#RRGGBB"> sets unvisited links color
<BODY VLink="#RRGGBB"> sets visited links color
<BODY ALink="#RRGGBB"> sets active links color

Separators

<H1></H1>...<H6></H6> headings from level 1 (major) to 6 (minor)
<HR> horizontal rule
<BR> line break
<P> paragraph start (end paragraph, </P> optional)


Physical Character Formatting

<B></B> bold
<I></I> italic
<TT></TT> typewriter
<PRE></PRE> 
preformatted text;
preserves line breaks
    and spacing


Logical Character Formatting

<EM></EM> emphasized
<STRONG></STRONG> strongly emphasized
<KBD></KBD> keyboard entry
<CITE></CITE> citation
<VAR></VAR> variable name
<SAMP></SAMP> text sample

Document Structure and Meta Tags

<HTML></HTML> start and end of HTML document
<HEAD></HEAD> document meta-information start and end
<TITLE></TITLE> document title; goes in HEAD
<BASE HREF="URL"> base reference URL of document; goes in HEAD
<BODY></BODY> content of document displayed by browser
<!- comment -> comment; not displayed by browser

Anchors

<A HREF="URL">Text</A> anchor linking Hotspot text to document URL
<A NAME="jump">text</A> anchor with name Jump associated with Text
<A HREF="URL#jump">text</A> anchor with jump from Hotspot to anchor named Jump in document URL


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