Tuesday, June 2, 2020

HTML TAGS

HTML Tags

HTML is a markup language and makes use of various tags to format the content. These tags are enclosed within angle braces <Tag Name>. Except few tags, most of the tags have their corresponding closing tags. For example, <html> has its closing tag </html> and <body> tag has its closing tag </body> tag etc.

Above example of HTML document uses the following tags −

Sr.No

Tag & Description

1

<!DOCTYPE...>

This tag defines the document type and HTML version.

2

<html>

This tag encloses the complete HTML document and mainly comprises of document header which is represented by <head>...</head> and document body which is represented by <body>...</body> tags.

3

<head>

This tag represents the document's header which can keep other HTML tags like <title>, <link> etc.

4

<title>

The <title> tag is used inside the <head> tag to mention the document title.

5

<body>

This tag represents the document's body which keeps other HTML tags like <h1>, <div>, <p> etc.

6

<h1>

This tag represents the heading.

7

<p>

This tag represents a paragraph.

To learn HTML, you will need to study various tags and understand how they behave, while formatting a textual document. Learning HTML is simple as users have to learn the usage of different tags in order to format the text or images to make a beautiful webpage.

World Wide Web (WWW)  recommends to use lowercase tags starting from HTML 4.

HTML Document Structure

A typical HTML document will have the following structure −

<html>

  <head>

  Document header relaed tags

  </head>

  <body>

   Document body related tags

  </body>

</html>


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