Common Tags

The Basics of HTML

2. Common Tags
Lets add new tags to expand upon our skeletal structure:


<HTML>

	<head>
	<title>Title Bar Message</title>
	</head>
	<body>


	
	<H1>
	Welcome to My Web Page!
	</H1>

	<H2>
	Here is an exerpt from the US Constitution:
	</H2>

	<p>
	&quot;We the People of the United States..
	&quot;
	</body>
	</HTML>

You should recognize many of the above tags. However there are a few new tags within the body section of the HTML document. These tags include:

<H1></H1> <H2></H2> H1 and H2 are called headline tags. There are several headline tags progressing from largest (H1) to smallest (H6). Headline tags emphasize text just like newspaper headlines.

<p> P tags (also called paragraph tags) separate text into paragraphs. Paragraphs tags DO NOT require closing tags. Some people use closing tags, it is really a matter of style. Professional web designers rarely use closing paragraph tags. If you wish to use close paragraph tags, they look like this: </p>

" HTML reserves some special characters that you cannot use in your regular text. " is an example of one of these special characters. The " tag, when entered into an HTML document creates the quotation mark symbol "

Here are a few of the reserved characters and the special notations required to get them to display:
	Non-breaking space, indents text by one space for each of these included.
&	Ampersand, displays the shorthand and symbol &
<	Less Than Symbol, <
>	Greater Than Symbol, >

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<H1></H1> <H2></H2>	H1 and H2 are called headline tags. There are several headline tags progressing from largest (H1) to smallest (H6). Headline tags emphasize text just like newspaper headlines.
<p>	P tags (also called paragraph tags) separate text into paragraphs. Paragraphs tags DO NOT require closing tags. Some people use closing tags, it is really a matter of style. Professional web designers rarely use closing paragraph tags. If you wish to use close paragraph tags, they look like this: </p>
"	HTML reserves some special characters that you cannot use in your regular text. " is an example of one of these special characters. The " tag, when entered into an HTML document creates the quotation mark symbol "