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Basic HTML TAGS

Posted by admin On August - 29 - 2008

HTML Tag Basics

For those of us needing a reference of basic HTML tags, make sure you bookmark this post!

So what is an HTML TAG anyway?

It is a notification or commands written into a web document.

Or, another explanation:
Code to identify the different parts of a document so that a web browser will know how to display it.

Pretty much anything that looks like this:

<tag> </tag> -or-  <tag />

What are the basic HTML TAGS?

<html></html> This tells the web browser the document is HyperText Markup Language.

<head></head> Descriptive information, meta information, and references to scripts go here.

<title></title> Use this to write the page title in the menu bar. (Goes inside the head tag.)

<body></body> This is the main part of the page where all the stuff goes.

<p></p> Paragraph. Need I say more?

<h1>, <h2>, <h3>, <h4>, <h5>, <h6></h1-6> Headings. 1 is the largest, 6 is the smallest.

<ul></ul> Makes an unordered list. (Like with no numbered order.)

<ol></ol> Makes an ordered list. (With numbered order.)

<li></li> A list item. Goes in side an unordered, or ordered list.

<br /> Break. Makes a single line break.

<hr /> Horizontal Rule. Its a horizontal line.

<img src /> Image with a source attribute. Source tells us where the image is.

<a href /> Anchor with an http refrence.  Also known as a Link. Http reference tells us where to link to.

<form></form> This is used for a form. Common example is a submission form.

<table></table> Table. Like making grids in a spreadsheet program.

<tr></tr> Table row. A row in the table.

<td></td> Table data. These are used to define data in table rows. sets of table data in a row makes columns in the table

Here are Examples of HTML tags.

This is a Paragraph.

Heading 1

Heading 3

Heading 6
  • Unordered list item
  • Unordered list item
  • Unordered list item
  1. Ordered list item
  2. Ordered list item
  3. Ordered list item

Paragraph
with a break.
Horizontal rule.

Link

Image

As always, make sure and visit w3schools.com for your HTML boot camp training!

If you have any questions about HTML basics, i’m more than happy to give you a quick answer, or point you in the right direction.


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