Basic and Useful Tags in HTML

Tags are elements of the HTML language. Almost every kind of tag has an opening symbol and a closing symbol. For example, the <HEAD> tag identifies the beginning of heading information. It also has a closing tag </HEAD>.

<HTML></HTML>

This element tells browsers that the file is a HTML document. Each HTML document starts with the tag <HTML>. This tag should be first thing in the document. It has an associate closing tag </HTML> which must be the last tag in the file.

<HEAD></HEAD>

The head contains important information about the document.

<TITLE></TITLE>

The title tag is an important tag. It is used to display a title on the top of your browser window. Both the opening and the closing tags go between the head tags.

<META>

Another tag that can be added in the head is a <META> tag. It is used to help search engines index a page. There are several different meta names.

The author meta:

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<META NAME="author" CONTENT="Nongjian Zhou">

The description meta:

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<META NAME="description" CONTENT="A very easy tutorial for HTML beginners">

The keyword meta.

Note that always seperate Keywords with a comma:

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<META NAME="keyword" CONTENT="html,tutorial,beginner,web design">

The following example shows how these tags are coded:

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<head>
<title>HTML For Beginners</title>
<meta name="Author"
content="Nongjian Zhou">
<meta name="Description"
content="A very easy tutorial for HTML beginners">
<meta name="Keywords"
content="html,tutorial,beginner,web design">
</head>
<BODY></BODY>

The Body Tag is used to identify the start of the main portion of your webpage. Between <BODY> </BODY> tags you will place all images, links, text, paragraphs, and forms. We will explain each tag that is used within the body of the HTML file.

<H#></H#>

There are six levels of headings, numbered 1 through 6. These tags are used for the characters in the outlines. The biggest heading is <H1> and smallest one is <H6>:

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<H1>Biggest text</H1>
......
<H6>smallest text</H6>

<P></P>

Paragraph tags (<P> opening tag and </P> closing tag) allow you to place a paragraph.

For example:

<p>Basic Information</p>
*The </P> closing tag may be omitted

Align

The defaulted position is left justification. You can also use "ALIGN" for justification:

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<p ALIGN="center"> Paragraph will be centered</p>
<p ALIGN="left"> Paragraph will be left justified</p>
<p ALIGN="right">Paragraph will be right justified</p>

Ex : <CENTER></CENTER>

This kind of tags have capability of allowing you to center the text on the homepage.

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<center><p> Paragraph will be centered</p></center>

<BR>

This tag break whatever to be on the next line. The following is an example:

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<p>Welcome To<br> My Homepage!</p>

<HR>

This tag adds a horizontal line or divider to your web site. An <HR> tag makes the following

divider:

The <hr> tag can be set as:
<hr width="450" align="right" size="5">
**&nbsp; You can add spaces in your text by using &nbsp;.

<BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>

You can use this tag to format or remove a text by movinging both the left and right sides of the paragraph.

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<BLOCKQUOTE>
<H1>Welcome To John's Homepage!</H1>
<p>Content</p>
<p>Basic Information</p>
</BLOCKQUOTE>

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<PRE></PRE>

Preformatted the text of the paragraph to exactly display what you typed in the Web browser.

For example:

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<pre>

Item Price quantity
-----------------------------
A 34.99 23
B 25.95 13
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</pre>

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