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<i>
: italic, indicates a text that differs from the main content<b>
: bold text, to bring the reader's attention<em>
: emphasis, insists on a text element<strong>
: brings an important, serious or urgent character<u>
: underlined text<strike>
: strikethrough textThese last tags, generally used for text formatting are now replaced by Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).