HTML Basic Tags

This tag is used to indicate the header section of the HTML document, which typically includes the <title> and <meta> tags, and is not displayed in the main window of the browser.

<title>

This tag indicates the title of this HTML page. The title is what is displayed on the upper left corner of the browser when you view a web page. For example, right now you can see there "Basic Tags: html, head, title, meta, body". That is the title of this page.

The title tag is important when it comes to search engine ranking. Many of the search engines pay special attention to the text in the <title> tag. This is because (logically) that words in the <title> tag indicate what the page content is.

<meta>

The <meta> tag information is not directly displayed when the page is rendered on the browser. Rather, this is used for the author of the HTML page to record information related to this page. Two common attributes are name and content. The <meta> tag used to hold great importance in search engine optimization, with authors carefully drafting what's inside the tag to gain better search engine ranking, but recently its importance has been decreasing steadily.

<body>

The <body> tag includes the HTML body of the document. Everything inside the <body> tag (other than those within the <script> tag) is displayed on the browser inside the main browser window.

The <body> tag may contain several attributes. The most commonly used ones are listed below:

bgcolor: This is the background color of the entire HTML document, and may be specified either by the color name directly or by the six-digit hex code.
alink: The color of the links.
vlink: The color of the visited links.
topmargin: The margin from the top of the browser window.
leftmargin: The margin from the left of the browser window.

Headings

Headings are defined with the <h1> to <h6> tags. <h1> defines the largest heading. <h6> defines the smallest heading.

<h1>This is a heading</h1>

<h2>This is a heading</h2>

<h3>This is a heading</h3>

<h4>This is a heading</h4>

<h5>This is a heading</h5>

<h6>This is a heading</h6>

HTML automatically adds an extra blank line before and after a heading.

Line Breaks

The <br> tag is used when you want to end a line, but don't want to start a new paragraph. The <br> tag forces a line break wherever you place it.

<p>This <br> is a para<br>graph with line breaks</p>

The <br> tag is an empty tag. It has no closing tag.

Comments in HTML

The comment tag is used to insert a comment in the HTML source code. A comment will be ignored by the browser. You can use comments to explain your code, which can help you when you edit the source code at a later date.

Note that you need an exclamation point after the opening bracket, but not before the closing bracket.

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