Basic HTML Summary

That's all we're going to cover about basic HTML. Again, we're using the model that HTML is for the content, and CSS will be for the formatting. Follow along with the CSS section for how to make it look "pretty".

Tags that You Learned

Here's a quick list, in order, of the tags that we used here:

html
head
title
body
p
br
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6
b (or strong)
i (or em)
hr
img
a

Pretty short list, huh? That's it. It's not very complex. This short list of tags marks up and classifies the majority of the "content" in all your web pages.

For formatting we'll now go on to CSS for the graphic design elements!

Note: Somewhat common tags that we did not cover here are the table tags and the few list tags (ul, ol, dl). With CSS these tags have become less often used for formatting, but I do recommend that you study them eventually as they can be useful.

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