HTML has about 100 or so different tags that have been defined for use within the markup language. This tags have
been standardized by the World Wide Web Consortium [http:/-/-www.w3c.org], which is the de facto standards
body for the internet. The formal documentation for most popular internet standards can be found on the W3C website.
Most html documents the same few basic tags, here is a list of some that you probably will find yourself using frequently:
Following is an example of a simple html document containing all of the tags above, as well as the required HTML
tags discussed earlier.
See Below HTML TAGS
<html>
<head>
<title>My Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Here is the largest header</h1>
<h2>Here is a large header</h2>
<h3>Here is a smaller header</h3>
<h4>Here is an even smaller header</h4>
<h5>Here is yet another smaller header</h5>
<h6>Here is the smallest header</h6>
<br/>
<p>Here is a paragraph with some text that I have written</p>
<p>This paragraph contains a hyperlink to the leep
<a href=”http://leep.lis.uiuc.edu”>homepage</a>,
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please go that site.</p>
<br/>
<table>
<tr colspan=”2″ rowspan=”1″><td>This is</td><td>A table</td></tr>
</table>
<p>Here is an image that I have selected for my site</p>
<br/>
<!– You can also write comments to yourself in HTML code to remind
yourself what you are doing when you go to edit your page –>
<!– This is where my image goes –>
<img src=”./images/us.gif”/>
<p>above is a picture</p>
</body>
</html>
