Introduction to the Reference Guide

This reference guide will introduce you to the basic HTML tags used in creating a webpage. You can edit the HTML of a webpage in Dreamweaver by clicking on the brackets <> button the bottom right-hand corner of your screen or choose one of the three buttons on the upper left-hand corner of your screen. For more information about these options, click here.

** A Note About How HTML Works

• Start and End Tags
HTML tags tell the browser how to display a page. All HTML tags have their own start and end tags so that a browser knows when to start displaying something a certain way and when to stop doing that. (End tags simply have an extra slash in front of them.)

For instance, the tags to bold text are <b> and </b>. So to bold a word, you would put <b> in front of the word and </b> at the end of what you want to stop bolding.
     <b>hello everyone</b>
would be displayed as
     hello everyone

Keep this in mind as you look through the reference guide. The majority of the tags have start and end tags.