Introduction

HTML is in a constant state of evolution. For the latest information on the HTML standard visit the w3 web site at: http://www.w3.org/hypertext /WWW/MarkUp/MarkUp.html. For a concise and comprehensive guide to HTML refer to: The HTML Reference Manual by Michael J. Hannah, Sandia National Laboratories and is available at http://www.sandia.gov /sci_compute/html_ref.html.

When designing web site content, it is important to remember that the current standard for HTML is Version 2, and can be found in RFC 1866 at ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1866.txt. Many commonly used commands and tags are proprietary to Microsoft and Netscape and will only work with their browsers. This means that if you use unsupported tags and features, your web site will be accessible to fewer browsers.

Below is a list of some HTML elements along with Superbase examples. Some of these elements can be used within another element or in the content of another element. All of them have a minimum requirement and most of them have other attributes that you can use if you want to. Some of them will work with almost any browser, some of them will only work with Netscape Navigator and some of them will only work with Microsoft Internet Explorer. A few elements like BODY have an element such as BGCOLOR. Netscape requires a set of numbers "256432" while Microsoft Internet Explorer will allow a color tag such as "Teal". For reference please consult either the guide that ships with WebSTAR or the http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/MarkUp.html web site. You may also find additional information by creating a new document in WebAuthor Pro and selecting the Help/HTML Help… menu item.

The following examples are displayed by calling the program elements.test from your WEB browser using the SBHTML.EXE gateway program.

[Server IP ADDRESS or Domain] + /CGI-WIN/sbhtml.exe?elements.test

i.e. 192.0.1.2:82/CGI-WIN/sbhtml.exe?elements.test