HTML Tags Lesson 2

What are HTML Tags?  Markup tags  Coded instructions that accompany the plain text of an HTML document  Syntax –Left wicket< –Tag elementTITLE –Optional set of tag attributes –Right wicket>

Opening and Closing Tags My Web Page  Empty tags –Do not occur in tag sets –Stand alone –Solitary element  Non-empty tags –Opening tag –Closing tag –Separated by effected text

Document Section Tags  Head –Primary function is to house tag Determines text displayed in title bar of browser  Body  HTML

Text Formatting Tags  Heading levels – to –Bold –White space before/after heading text ,, , 

Layout Tags  –Inserts line break immediately following tag  –Marks beginning of new paragraph/block of text –Text forced to next line and left justified  –Instructs browser to display text exactly as it is typed in HTML document  –Indents blocks of text

Logical Tags  Comment –Does not display comment text in browser

Lists  Unordered lists –Bulleted lists – - Non-empty tag set – - Empty tag  Ordered lists –Numbered lists – - Non-empty tag set – - Empty tag