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Learning HTML

While creating web pages is a popular activity, one needs to know some basic HTML tags. Here are the main ones to get you started.

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<HTML>...</HTML>Begins and ends the web page.Creates an HTML document
<HEAD>...</HEAD>Sets off the title and other information that isn't displayed on the Web page itself
<TITLE>...</TITLE>These tags place a title on the top of your browser.Puts the name of the document in the title bar
<BODY BGCOLOR=######>This sets the color of the background.
<TABLE>...</TABLE>These tags begin and end a table.
<HR>This tag creates a line across your page.Inserts a horizontal rule
<BODY>...</BODY>Sets off the visible portion of the document.
<P>This tag skips an extra line at the end of the paragraph and creates a new paragraph.
<BR>This tag breaks inserts a line break putting the folowing text on the next line.
<A HREF="URL">Site_Name</A>This tag creates a hyperlink to another web page.
<FONT SIZE=#>...</FONT SIZE>This tag sets size of font, from 1 to 7
<IMG SRC="name">This tag displays an image from the identified location.
<CENTER>...</CENTER>These tags will center the text that is between them.
<H1>...</H1>These tags create a level 1 heading. Creates the largest headline.
<U>...</U>These tags will underline the text that is between them.
<B>...</B>These tags will make text that is between them bold.
<I>...</I>These tags will italisize the text that is between them.
<FONT COLOR=######>This tag set the color of the letters.
<UL>...</UL>These tags indent.
<a href="mailto:email"> </a>This tag creates a mail to link.

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