Review of Basic HTML Tags
The fundamental points:
- Web documents are ordinary text files (ASCII) that:
- Contain tags, which are used to "mark-up" text.
- Are named with a ".html" extension.
- Are placed in a "www-data" directory within AFS public space.
- Tags are just text with a special format:
- Each individual tag begins with the character "<"
- Each individual tag ends with the character ">"
- A tag may contain keywords, the first of which is the
name of the tag.
e.g., <XYZ KEY=VALUE> would be called an "XYZ-tag." - Most tags come in pairs: an opening tag, and a closing tag,
which has the same name preceded by a "/".
The text between the two tags is affected by them.
- The tags we have discussed are:
- <HTML> First tag in a document (unpaired).
- <HEAD> Marks the head section (paired).
- <BODY> Marks the body section (paired).
- <TITLE> Title (goes in head section) (paired).
- <P> Paragraph break (unpaired).
- <BR> Line break (unpaired).
- <HR> Horizontal rule (line) (unpaired).
- <PRE> Preformatted text (paired).
- <EM> Emphasis (usually italics) (paired).
- <STRONG> Stronger emphasis (paired).
- <B> Bold (text attribute) (paired).
- <I> Italics (text attribute) (paired).
- <H1> Level 1 (e.g., document) heading (paired).
- <H2> Level 2 (e.g., part) heading (paired).
- <H3> Level 3 (e.g., chapter) heading (paired).
- <H4> Level 4 (e.g., section) heading (paired).
- <H5> Level 5 (e.g., subsection) heading (paired).
- <H6> Level 6 (e.g., paragraph) heading (paired).
SDR, 15 Jun 1995.