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HTML basics - Part 2 - Miscellaneous tags

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Basic tags

Miscellaneous tags:

ball BR - Forced line break
Appearance: <BR>
Attributes: CLEAR=left|all|right|none
Allows you to create a forced line break.

Clear

The clear attribute is used in conjunction with images that use an align attribute. The clear attribute tells the browser to clear the text either to the left of an image, to the right of an image or all, both left and right.

BLOCKQUOTE - Large quotations
Appearance: <BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE>
Attributes: None

Is used for long quotes and citations

ADDRESS - Address information
Appearance: <ADDRESS> </ADDRESS>
Attributes: None
Is used to format the "signature" or general information about the author of the document

ball PRE - Preformatted text
Appearance: <PRE> </PRE>
Attributes: WIDTH=n
PRE is text that is pre-formatted, not allowing the browser to format the text.

WIDTH

The width attribute tells the browser how wide the text is allowing the browser to chose a font which fits the text onto the display.

ball Mailto

Mailto is not a tag by itself, but a form of the Hyperlink tag. The HREF attribute can specify mailto: indicating the browser should bring up the send mail window. Following is a mailto example:

<a href="mailto:gb_perotti@it.ibm.com">click here</a>

To send a message to the webmaster, click here

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