Some common HTML tags
Functions of different html tags
|
Tag |
Use |
<html> ... </html> |
Defines the HTML Page |
<head> ... </head> |
Defines the header section of the page. |
<body> ... </body> |
Defines the body section of the page. |
<title> ... </title> |
Displays the title of the page in the title bar of the browser. Used inside the header section. |
<h1> ... </h1> |
Displays the specified text as a heading. There are six levels of headings. <h1>, <h2>, <h3>, <h4>, <h5> and <h6>. |
<p> ... </p> |
Used for defining a paragraph. |
<br> |
Used for defining a line break. |
<img> ... </img> |
Used for adding an image to the page |
<a> ... </a> |
Used for specifying a hyper link. |
<table> ... </table> <tr> ... </tr> <td> ... </td> |
<table> tag is used to create a table. Inside it, the <tr>tags define table rows. Each <tr>tag can contain one or more <td>tags which define the cells in a row. Tables are used for displaying tabular data. However, many developers use it for dividing a page into sections so that different elements can be placed in these sections. It is recommended to use the <div>tag instead of tables for creating sections in a page. |
<div> ... </div> |
Used for creating blocks (sections) in a page. These sections can be placed at different positions on the page. |
<form> ... </form> |
Defines HTML form. Various controls for user interaction like text box and buttons are placed inside the form. |
The above list shows only some of the tags available in HTML. The tags are used in pairs; an opening tag should have a closing tag. However, some tags can be used by itself without closing them like the <br> or the <hr> tags.
We can also specify attributes with the tags. Attributes provide further information on how to display the element in a tag. Using the attributes, we can provide background and foreground colors, font styles, width, height, and position of the elements. For example, the following <body> tag will display the page with a black background:
<body bgcolor = "000000"> . . . </body>
Note that the different versions of HTML may also implement the tags and attributes differently. Similarly, the XHTML enforces some strict rules on using tags and attributes.
