Common HTML Tags Opening Tag Ending Tag Purpose ----------- ---------- ------- for the beginning and end of a page a non-printing webpage heading a window title: it displays text inside the tags contains display content for the page section for code in scripting language (may use type and/or src attribute)

to

for heading level one;

... displays smaller font; ALIGN attribute positions LEFT, RIGHT or CENTER
unpaired horizontal rule

starts a paragraph; need to define line br/eaks and spaces within
unpaired inserts line br/eak (smaller vertical space than paragraph markers) set font attributes face, color, size display text in bold face ( used for css) display text in italics ( for css) anchor tag: attribute href="address" defines links to a file, page ... Comment

surrounds unordered list of paragraphs that start with

for ordered list

specifies list item none inserts a space -- used because browser will remove consecutive spaces unpaired for image; attribues are src, width, height, border

for table definition; attributes are width, border, cellspacing, cellpadding table header cell (bold and centered) defines a table row table data cell