Commonly Used HTML Tags: What Do They Mean?

copied from: http://www.columbia.edu/~sss31/html/html-mean.html and added some missing stuff.

Tags

Meaning

<HTML> .... </HTML> Hyper Text Markup Language
<HEAD> .... </HEAD> The head, or prologue, of the HTML document
<BODY> .... </BODY> All the other content in the HTML document
<TITLE> .... </TITLE> The title of the document
<P> Paragraph
<BR> Line Break
<HR>
<HR SIZE=?>
<HR WIDTH=?>
<HR WIDTH=%>
<HR NOSHADE> 		Horizontal Rule
Thickness (in pixels)
Width (in pixels)
Width Percent (as a percentage of page width)
Solid Line (without the 3D cutout look)
<!- . . . -> Comment
<A> . . . </A> Anchor: links the current HTML file to another file.
href= Hyper Text Reference
<LI> List
<OL>
<LI>
</OL>
Organized List ("LI" before each list item)
<UL>
<LI>
</UL>
Unorganized List ("LI" before each list item)
<DL>
<DT>
<DD>
</DL>
Definition List
Definition Term
Definition Data
End Definition List
<IMG SRC=> Image Source
<B>
</B> 		Bold
<I>
</I> 		Italic
<STRONG>
</STRONG> 		Strong Emphasis (usually displayed as bold)
<EM>
</EM> 		Emphasis (usually displayed as italic)
<BLOCKQUOTE>
</BLOCKQUOTE> 		Block Quote (usually indented)
<TT>
</TT> 		Typewriter (displays in a monospaced font)
<PRE>
</PRE> 		Preformatted (display text spacing as-is)
<table>
<TR>
<TD>
</TD>
</TR>
</Table>
Start Table
Table Row
Table Data
End Table Data
End Table Row
Ends Table.


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