GLOSSARY
Last updated by Roedy Green
This does not cover CSS (Cascaded Style Sheets), but most other
common HTML, including SSI.
Groups
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Line Breaks
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new paragraph, blank line inserted
Font selectors
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Fonts
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Here are some fonts the user may have available:
Arial
Arial Black
AvantGarde-Book
AvantGarde-BookOblique
AvantGarde-Demi
AvantGarde-DemiOblique
Bookman-Demi
Bookman-DemiItalic
Bookman-Light
Bookman-LightItalic
Britannic Bold
Comic Sans MS
Comic Sans MS Bold
Courier
Courier New
Courier-Bold
Courier-BoldOblique
Courier-Oblique
Garamond
Geneva
Helvetica
Helvetica-Bold
Helvetica-BoldOblique
Helvetica-Narrow
Helvetica-Narrow-Bold
Helvetica-Narrow-BoldOblique
Helvetica-Narrow-Oblique
Helvetica-Oblique
Impact
Monaco
MS Sans Serif
MS Serif
NewCenturySchlbk-Bold
NewCenturySchlbk-BoldItalic
NewCenturySchlbk-Italic
NewCenturySchlbk-Roman
New York
Palatino
Palatino-Bold
Palatino-BoldItalic
Palatino-Italic
Palatino-Roman
Scribble
Symbol
Tahoma
Terminal
Times
Times New Roman
Times-Bold
Times-BoldItalic
Times-Italic
Times-Roman
Verdana
Webdings
ZapfChancery-MediumItalic
ZapfDingbats
Forms
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see Bare Bones tutorial
at http://werbach.com/barebones/barebones.html#forms
Anchors
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typical target -- place where you jump TO:
Links
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typical reference that when clicked takes you to a particular spot:
glossary
or
glossary
or
glossary
Email reference
Roedy Green
GIF reference (often embedded in an .. reference to provide a picture button
Tables
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Figures
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Frames
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ordered numbered list
unordered bulleted list
menu list, more compact than ul.
dictionary list
new line, no extra space
gets past any flow-around illustration.
horizontal rule
..
.. heading
bold
italic
typewriter font
preformatted
or +3 for relative increase
shorthand for
shorthand for
definition
italic emphasis
book titles
program listings
keystrokes
computer status messages
bold emphasis
to be replaced by specific when used.
underline
email address, possibly street address.
long quotation
suggest a typeface. User must
have it installed, can specify alternates
in order of preference.
Roedy's Java Glossary
table
cellpadding is interior border of cell.
cellspacing in border _between_ cells.
cellpadding will appear on left side of leftmost cell
and right side of the rightmost cell; cellspacing will not.
table row
valign can be top, middle, bottom, baseline
valign can also occur on caption, tr and td.
header item, also left,center,right,justify
data item
header spanning two rows
data item spanning two rows
header spanning two columns
data item spanning two columns
align data in this cell at the : char
may not break lines in cell
hints on how to compute column widths