HTML Stands For HYPER TEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE
Hyper Text Mark-up Language (a system used to mark text for World Wide Web pages in order to obtain colours, style, pictures, etc.)
HTML is a fairly straightforward programming language. Each tag starts with a < and ends with a >. For example the paragraph tag is <p>
There is a range of HTML tags, they help you to design your web page. There are four required tags in HTML. These are html, title, head and body. The table below shows you the opening and closing tag, a description and an example.
These are the other tags that HTML commonly uses in documents. They are not required but when used are very effective in creating professional effective websites.
| Open tag | Close tag | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| <p> | </p> | This tag allows you to create paragraphs | My name is Fred. |
| <h1> | </h1> | This is the largest heading | Heading 1 |
| <h2> | </h2> | This is second biggest heading | Heading 2 |
| <h3> | </h3> | This is the next heading | Heading 3 |
| <h4> | </h4> | This is another heading | Heading 4 |
| <h5> | </h5> | This is the second smallest heading | Heading 5 |
| <h6> | </h6> | This is the smallest heading | Heading 6 |
| <hr > | n/a | This is a horizontal line. You can use width and size attributes | |
| <b> | </b> | This makes text bold | Bold text |
| <i> | </i> | This makes text italic | Italic text |
| <br /> | n/a | This tag allows you to insert line breaks | abc def |
| Start HTML Tag | End HTML Tag | Description |
|---|---|---|
| <html> | </html> | These are the tags you put at the beginning and end of an HTML file. |