HOSTILE : Speed Sheet Reference

What we have here is a basic list of the HTML elements in HTML4.0 grouped by usefulness.

• Must have
  • !DOCTYPE
  • HTML
  • HEAD
  • BODY
  • TITLE
• Really need
  • P
  • A
  • BR
  • H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6
  • STRONG or B if you are nasty
  • EM, or I if you call her Ms. Jackson
  • HR
  • IMG
  • SPAN
  • DIV
• Darn handy
  • PRE
  • UL, OL, LI
  • DL, DT, DD
  • BLOCKQUOTE, Q
  • TABLE, CAPTION, TH, TD, TR
  • FORM, INPUT, SELECT, OPTION, TEXTAREA
  • BIG, SMALL
  • TT
  • CITE
  • SUB, SUP
  • CODE, KBD, SAMP
• Special
  • STYLE
  • META
  • SCRIPT, NOSCRIPT
  • OBJECT, PARAM
  • FRAMESET, FRAME, NOFRAMES, IFRAME
  • AREA, MAP
• Hardly Ever
  • THEAD, TFOOT, TBODY, COLGROUP, COL
  • OPTGROUP, BUTTON, LABEL, FIELDSET, LEGEND
  • INS, DEL
  • ABBR, ACRONYM, ADDRESS, DFN
  • BASE, LINK
  • BDO
• Real Bad (Deprecated)
  • ISINDEX
  • STRIKE, S
  • FONT, BASEFONT
  • CENTER
  • DIR, MENU
  • APPLET