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Basic HTML Tags for Beginners
By admin | January 15, 2009
HTML is the markup language that is predominantly used in web pages. It is the one which tells the computer how information contained in the page is to be displayed.
Learning how to write HTML codes is an important skill that any web designer should have. Once you start getting your website ready to go online, you’re going to need to know at least some HTML. We’ll talk more about HTML again soon. Knowing this is fairly crucial to building web pages, and it’s not really so boring or hard to figure out either.
Below is a list of the most common HTML tags used to help beginners become familiar with this language.
1. <HTML></HTML> – are the opening and closing tags used at the beginning and end of each HTML file.
2. <HEAD></HEAD> – comes after the <HTML> tag and it is where information that is not displayed on the website can be found. It includes META tags, style sheets and Java Scripts.
3. <TITLE></TITLE> – is enclosed within the HEAD tags and it is where the title of the web page is placed.
4. <BODY></BODY> – it is within these tags that the things displayed on the website can be found.
5. <EM></EM> – the tag stands for emphasis. It replaced the <I></I> tags which were used to make the text inside the tags italicized.
6. <STRONG></STRONG> – are tags used to make the text within them bold.
7. <H1></H1> to <H6></H6> – are used for headers. Placing text within any of these tags makes the font larger or smaller than the normal text and bold.
8. <P></P> – placing text within these tags turns them into a single paragraph. A single line break is automatically added below the last line of the displayed text.
Just to get used to what HTML looks like and how it’s written, for now just start viewing the “source code” of various pages you visit. Don’t try to figure it all out yet or you risk getting put off a bit. Just look it over every now and then and get an idea how it is structured.
To view the source code for any webpage, just right-click on any blank part of the page and then select “view source”.
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