HTML Tags Guide

A list of all HTML tags, attributes, elements, and enumerated values with examples, and descriptions.

For beginners, a text editor is needed to create html files and to view the results you need a browser. To create a HTML file, save the file with a file name along with .html or .htm extensions at the end of the file name. For example, save the html file in text editor as "fileone.html".

HTML scripts begins with a <html> and ends with </html>. In between <html> and </html> contains two section. The head section begins with a <head> and ends with </head> and a body section begins with a <body> and ends with </body>.

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Html Tags Guide

HTML tags
<a>	anchor tag creates hyperlink
<abbr>	abbreviation tag displays text as an abbreviation
<body>	body tag creates a body section for the html document
<b>	bold tag displays text in bold font
<br>	break tag inserts a new single line break
<cite>	citation tag displays text as a citation.
<code>	code tag displays text as a computer code
<dfn>	definition tag displays text as a definition of a word or term
<dl>	definition list tag displays each definition list of items with 2 entries a definition and a term
<em>	emphasis tag displays text as emphasized font
<font>	font tag specifies font size, font face and font color of the text
<form>	form tag creates a client side user data input form
<head>	head tag creates a head section for the html document
<h1>,<h2>,....<h6>	headers tag displays text as a header
<img>	image tag inserts an image file into the html document
<i>	italic tag displays text in italic font
<kbd>	keyboard tag displays text as keyboard entry text
<menu>	menu list displays list of items as a menu list
<ol>	ordered list displays list of items as an ordered (numbered) list
<p>	paragraph tag creates a paragraph in html document
<pre>	preformat tag displays text that preserves spaces and line breaks
<samp>	sample tag displays text as sample output
<strong>	strong tag displays strongly emphasized text in bold
<table>	table tag is the main wrapper for all the table elements
<td>	table data tag creates table data cell within the table rows
<tt>	teletype tag displays fixed width teletype/mono spaced text
<title>	title tag displays title for the html document
<tr>	table row tag creates table row in a table
<ul>	unordered list tag displays list of items as an unordered (bulleted) list
<var>	var tag displays text as a programming variable