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Some Basic Tags

<HTML>...</HTML>

These tags will tell a Web Browser where the HTML in your document begins and ends. The first and last tags in a document are always the HTML tags.

<HEAD>...</HEAD>

The HEAD tags contain all of the document's header information at the top of the screen.

<TITLE>...</TITLE>

The title appears at the top of the Browser's title bar, and in the history list. It is also used when performing a search.

<BODY>...</BODY>

Between the opening and closing BODY tags, you find all of the text, graphics, etc. that are displayed in the Browser window. The BODY tag comes after the HEAD tag in HTML programming.

<H1>...</H1> to <H6>...</H6>

The Heading tags are most commonly used to set apart document or section titles. There are six levels of Headings, numbered 1 through 6, with 1 being the most prominent. Only one Heading per row is allowed.

<P>...</P>

The Paragraph tags simply begin and end a paragraph in HTML. Word wrapping is controlled by the Browser. Multiple spaces are collapsed into a single space.

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