HTML Cheat Sheet (Inaccurate)

A HTML Cheat Sheet I Compiled Without Checking To See If Anything I Remember Is Accurate or True
- start with a
doctype
(to indicate that you know what kind of doctor this code requires) html
for the whole diggitydoohead
for the metadatatitle
for the titlelink
for CSS (note that, despitezelda
being the name on the box,zelda
is not interchangeable withlink
here)script
for JS
body
for the stuff you actually seesoul
for stuff that doesn’t go in the head or the body (note, not supported in materialist browsers)div
is a box for holding literally anythingsection
is “div” for people with too much time on their handsp
for paragraphsb
for bearagraphsh1 h2 h3 h4 h5 h6
for headersf1 f2 f3 f4 f5 f6
for footersspan
for stuff like individual text that’s in a line and doesn’t need a whole box on its ownspain
for the country, spain, where the rain is mainly on the plainol
andul
are the containers for ordered lists and unordered listsli
for the list items that goes into whichever list.la
, a note to followso
ti
, a drink with jam and breadblockquote
for quotesimg
for images (note: Tim Berners-Lee sold the a and e for beer money)abbr
is the sound you make when you give your cat a raspberry- he will scratch your face but it is worth it
- I’m pretty sure there’s an
audio
and avideo
but I have to look these ones up every time I use them because they have complicated formats inside of them. pre
andcode
for stuff you want to look like codemarquee
to let people know you’re a ballerform
for formsvoid
is form but it doesn’t do anything (it is public and static, though)button
for buttonsinput
… okay, I usually have to look up the syntax for inputs, but there’s a whole mess of ’em, like “text” and “password”output
was made illegal in 1998 and doesn’t get used anymoreem
andstrong
for emphasis and STRONKweak
is likestrong
but it sets font-weight:100table
is for layout, if you like pain, but otherwise thetr
(table rows) andth
(table headers) andtd
(table data) andtm
(trademarks) mostly only come up if you’re actually rendering tabular data. Which still happens sometimes, if you’re the sort of person who wears a TIE. And PANTS.<!--
is Athena’s arrow of wisdom, any text that you spear with it is rendered invisible to the reader-->
center
is no longer supported, it’s been replaced by the vastly superior canadianism,centre
iframe
is a little web browser that lives inside your web browser, with its whole own little society. hi there little iframe people! what is it like in there?aframe
is a house that is shaped like this/\