HTML has many basic tags. Some of the basic tags are <html>, <head> and <body>. The purpose of these HTML basic tags is to build our web pages. Remember that html tags are enclosed in brackets <>. Also most of the tags are in pairs, so if a tags starts like <body> it has an ending tag </body>. Any thing between the starting tag <body> and ending tag </body> will be considered as the part of body.
List of HTML Basic Tags
A list of HTML basic tags with thier functionalities is given here.
| HTML Tag | Tag Function |
| <html> | Creates HTML web page |
| <head> | Defines the head section of html |
| <body> | Its the main area on webpage, where contents are visible |
| <title> | Defines the title of webpage |
| <br> | For inserting a line break, to move contents to a next line |
| <p> | Defines a paragraph |
| <b> | To make text appear bold |
| <img> | To insert images on web page |
| <a> | To make Hyperlink on web page |
As you can see it's easy to remember the names of tags, but it gets really difficult to remember Where we can use a specific tag. In HTML Page Structure topic we are going to learn an easy way to remember the postion of HTML tags.