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Web Development : Common HTML Tags
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HTML Tag Basics
Tag Attributes

Common HTML Tags:

  1. Bolding, Italicizing, and Underlining
  2. Comments
  3. Divisions (Creates visible "blocked" sections)
  4. Headings
  5. Images
  6. Links
  7. Lists: Numbered and Bulleted
  8. Paragraphs
  9. Tables
  10. Forms
  11. Special HTML Symbol Listing

HTML Tags Basics:

  • HTML tags are used to mark-up HTML elements
  • HTML tags are surrounded by the two characters < and >
  • The surrounding characters are called angle brackets
  • HTML tags normally come in pairs like <p> and </p>
  • The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag
  • The text between the start and end tags is the element content
  • HTML tags are case sensitive

Tag Attributes:

Tags can have attributes. Attributes can provide additional information about the HTML elements on your page.

Attributes always come in name/value pairs like this: name="value".

Attributes are always added only to the start tag of an HTML element.

This tag defines a paragraph for your HTML page: <p>. With an added align attribute, you can tell the browser how to align the text in this paragarph, like this: <p align="center">.

This tag defines an HTML header: <h1>. With an added class attribute, you can give this heading a predefined CWU style: <h1 class="priHeader">
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Mail Stop 7505
Phone: (509) 963-2810
Email: daysj@cwu.edu
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