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HTML Key Points: Tags

HTML documents contain tags that specify the structure and semantics of content. The <!DOCTYPE html> declaration identifies the document as HTML5. The <html> tags enclose all other tags, with <head> containing metadata like the <title> and <body> containing visible content. Common block-level tags include <p> for paragraphs, <h1>-<h6> for headings, <ul>/<ol> for unordered/ordered lists, and <div> for sections. Inline text styling is provided by tags like <b> for bold, <i> for italic, and <br> for breaks.

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HTML Key Points: Tags

HTML documents contain tags that specify the structure and semantics of content. The <!DOCTYPE html> declaration identifies the document as HTML5. The <html> tags enclose all other tags, with <head> containing metadata like the <title> and <body> containing visible content. Common block-level tags include <p> for paragraphs, <h1>-<h6> for headings, <ul>/<ol> for unordered/ordered lists, and <div> for sections. Inline text styling is provided by tags like <b> for bold, <i> for italic, and <br> for breaks.

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HTML Key Points

• To specify HTML5 as the document type, add <!DOCTYPE html> at the beginning of the file.
• All the HTML coding in a document (except the DOCTYPE) is enclosed within a two-sided <html>
tag.
• The <html> and </html> tags enclose the <head> and <body> sections.
• The <head> area contains the page title (<title>) and any <meta> tags. The <body> area
contains all the displayable text for the page.
• Enclose each paragraph in a two-sided <p> tag. Most browsers add space between paragraphs
when displaying the page.
• To create a line break without starting a new paragraph, use the one-sided <br> tag.
• Use the <title> and </title> tags to enclose the text that should appear in the browser’s title
bar. Place these in the <head> section of the file.
• Most tags are based on function, not formatting. They specify that text has a certain function,
such as a heading or quotation, rather than specifying a certain way it should appear.
• The exact formatting (the appearance) applied to tagged text is controlled by the default settings
of the browser, by individual user customization, or by styles.
• Define headings by using the tags <h1> through <h6> (largest to smallest).
• To make text bold, use the <b> tag; to italicize it, use the <i> tag.
• The tag for superscript is <sup>; the tag for subscript is <sub>.
• To create a numbered (ordered) list, use the <ol> tags. For a bulleted (unordered) list, use the
<ul> tags.
• Within the <ol> or <ul> tags, use <li> tags for each list item. These tags are all two-sided. HTML
does not require the closing </li>, but XHTML does.
• Ordered and unordered lists can be nested. Enclose the second-level <ul> or <ol> list within a
<li></li> tag inside the main list.
• To use a different bullet character or numbering style, use the style=”list-style-type: type”
attribute in the <ul> or <ol> opening tag.
• To create a definition list, use the <dl></dl> tags. Within the <dl> tags, enclose each term in a
<dt></dt> tag, and enclose each definition in a <dd></dd> tag.
• You can display special characters on a Web page by using HTML character entity references.
• To insert a horizontal line, use the <hr> tag. This is a one-sided tag. Put any specifications for
the line within it, such as color, height, and width.
• You can specify colors by using basic or extended names, RGB values, or hexadecimal values.
• To assign a background color to a page, insert a style=”background-color: color” attribute into
the <body> opening tag. For a foreground color, use style=”color: color”. These attributes can
be combined into a single statement with a semicolon separator, like this: style=”background-
color: red; color: white”.
• To assign a background image to a page, insert a style=”background-image: image” attribute
into the <body> opening tag.

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