Most of us have gotten used to building tables for the LJ bio field, and have discovered that the DW one doesn't work the same way. So I messed around for a while and came up with some guidelines.
To read the table, you need to know that a tag is the thing that goes in angle brackets and appears on each side of the text you want to control. So <b>bold</b> gives you bold. The "b" is the tag, and the angle brackets tell the browser to interpret it as instructions and not text, and where to begin (the opening tag with no forward slash) and end (the closing tag with a forward slash) applying whatever those instructions contain. Stand-alone tags like br and img should properly contain a slash, as well: <br /> and <img />. No modern browser will choke on it if you don't have the closing, but it's more correct to include it.
Attributes are additions to a tag that let you further control how the browser will render your text. For example, font can take face, color and size, or any combination of the three. So <font face="comic sans ms,cursive" color="#ff0000"> will create text that is very pleasing to the eye. Attributes only need to appear in the opening tag.
Onward.
( tags )
To read the table, you need to know that a tag is the thing that goes in angle brackets and appears on each side of the text you want to control. So <b>bold</b> gives you bold. The "b" is the tag, and the angle brackets tell the browser to interpret it as instructions and not text, and where to begin (the opening tag with no forward slash) and end (the closing tag with a forward slash) applying whatever those instructions contain. Stand-alone tags like br and img should properly contain a slash, as well: <br /> and <img />. No modern browser will choke on it if you don't have the closing, but it's more correct to include it.
Attributes are additions to a tag that let you further control how the browser will render your text. For example, font can take face, color and size, or any combination of the three. So <font face="comic sans ms,cursive" color="#ff0000"> will create text that is very pleasing to the eye. Attributes only need to appear in the opening tag.
Onward.
( tags )