Text is generally organized into paragraphs. Use <p> and </p> to surround your paragraphs.
One of the more confusing issues for beginning page designers is that HTML ignores any carriage returns in your text (when you press the Enter key). That often makes lines and paragraphs run together in one large blob. To force a new line you must you a "line break" code or end a paragraph. The line break code, <br>, is one of the few markup codes that is not used in a start/end pair.
To display a heading or title to a section of text, use the <hx> and </hx> markup codes. Replace x with a number from 1 through 6. By default h1 displays the largest headline and h6 is the smallest. You can change the size and look of all these later when we add CSS.
Following is a sample of each, from h1 to h6:
To optimize search engine classification, you should always use h1 for your most important headings, h2 for secondary headings, h3 for less important headings, and so on.
To create bold type, enclose text between <b> and </b>. For italic text, use <i> and </i>.
To add a line like the one above, just use <hr>. This is another tag that appears without a separate end tag.