 Some Basic HTML Tags (to Get You Started)
Beginning and Ending Tags
Most html tags consist of a beginning
tag and an ending tag. For example:<P> </P>
P is the tag for beginning and ending a paragraph. Notice the / in the second tag. All ending tags contain a /.
This slash is important, it tells the browser that the tag is closed (what you wanted done has ended.)
All it takes is a small mistake like a missing quotation mark to create errors on your webpage. Be careful when you enter tags!
Entering Breaks
Hitting the "Enter" key will have no affect on your web page. If you want to start a new
line in a certain place within a paragraph, you need to use this tag:
<BR>
It means "break". It is a single tag requiring no end tag
and acts like the <P> tag except it skips one line
instead of two.You don't need to use it at the end of each sentence in a paragraph, just use it if you want to start a new line in a particular place within a paragraph. Example:
The key to learning to use tags is practice.<BR> You can do it! <P>
This is what it would look like on your page:
The key to learning to use tags is practice.
You can do it!
Changing the Way Text Looks
To make a word or several words bold, use these tags:
<B> </B>
The text that you want bold
is enclosed between these tags:
Only one word here will be bold <B> Guess </B>which one?
Did you pick "guess"? You're right!
Underlining works like this? Use these tags:
<U> </U>
What about italicized words?
This is what to use:
<I> </I>
You can use any or all
combinations of these tags depending on the effect you want to have on your text:
The<I>key</I>in learning to make web pages is
<B> <U> <I>practice.</I> </U> </B>
Notice how the words to be affected are enclosed in
the beginning and end tags. Notice the slash in the end tags. Don't forget them. Result:
The key to learning to make tags is practice.
Attributes
Telling Tags What To Do
The text on this web page is pretty small. We can change that with a new tag:
<FONT>
</FONT>
Inside this tag we are putting what is called an attribute.
Attributes tell tags how or where they are to display the items between them. To change the size of text we will use the SIZE attribute inside the FONT tag like so:
<FONT SIZE="+3">practice</FONT>
Result:
practice
Note that the attribute was only required for
the beginning tag. Note also the quotation marks around the +3 and the equal sign preceding it.
Don't forget to use qoutes when using attributes otherwise it will have no effect on your text. You may use any size from -1 to -6
and from +1 to +6 but remember to put them inside quotation marks.
Color
Another attribute that can be used with the FONT tag is COLOR:
<FONT COLOR="#FF0000">practice</FONT>
Result:
practice
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