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Tutorials: Basic HTML Tags and Attributes

Learning HTML is easy and fun. However, mastering HTML is the real challenge. This mastery comes mainly from practice and experience and, therefore, it takes time to make use of the full potential of HTML. This tutorial will give you a handle on how to use the basic elements of HTML to create a basic web page. From here, if you decide you want to try a more advanced approach to HTML just follow this link to Index DOT Html.

Preliminary Information

Basic HTML Body and Structure Tags

<HTML> Opens and closes your HTML document
<HEAD> Information for Browsers and Search engines is placed within this tag
<TITLE> Site's title is placed here (never could have guessed could you?)
<META> More Search Engine information goes here
<BODY> The main portion of your site is placed within this tag

Page Appearance and Format

<B> Bolds text
<I> Italicizes text
<U> Underlines text
<STRONG> Places strong emphasis on text
<EM> Emphasizes text
<FONT> Allows you to assingn certain characteristics to text
<SUB> Makes subscript text
<SUP> Makes superscript text

Making Lists

<UL> Create Unnumbered list
<OL> Create numbered list

Framing Your Page

<FRAMESET> Sets Frames
<FRAME> Declares the Frames
<IFRAME> Neat way to place a frame like an image

Images and Links

<IMG> Place an image on page
<HR> Sets Horizontal Rule on page
<A> Create link

How to Set Up Tables

<TABLE> Declare Table
<TR> Set Row
<TD> Set Column
<TH> Set Table Header
<CAPTION> Place Caption for Table