Lesson 1.11. Most used HTML tags

Usefull HTML tags

The list below presents the most frequently encountered HTML tags:

<h1> to <h6>: headings or titles
<p>: paragraph
<a>: hypertext link
<img>: image
<br>: line break
<div>: division, is used to differentiate sections in pages
<span>: generic text container, don't format the text, usefull to add attribute to a section of text
<hr> : horizontal line (separator)
<table>: table
<tr>: table row
<td>: table division or cell
<ul>: unordered list
<ol>: ordered list
<li>: list item
<iframe>: insert another HTML page in the current page (use by Youtube players for example)
<video>: video

These last tags, generally used for text formatting are now replaced by Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).