Video Lesson - Writing Common
HTML Tags for Beginners
If you are a newcomer to
creating
web pages then you
will be excited by some of these tutorials. This
article presents a great tutorial about writing and
inserting common HTML tags for beginners.
With just a few of these web
design lessons about
the hypertext markup language (real name) you can
start building a simplistic web page today. Ready
to go? Let's begin!
Study the Lesson and Watch
the Video Demonstration for Inserting Common HTML
Tags into Your Pages
Background
Color
The background color goes
within the <body> tag. Type the code
bgcolor="blue" (any HTML color or color code can be
inserted where the word blue appears)
You can pick various colors
from an HTML color code chart to test different
background colors. Preview your background color in
the browser to make sure it's the color you
want.
Other Common HTML
Tags
*Headers tell what a page is
about and can be used to increase/decrease text
size. Headers are sized between 1 and 6. The tag
for a header is <h1> (replace the 1 with any
number up to 6 to change the sizes).
The closing header tag goes
at the end of the heading statement, which is
</h1>. Generally, a header will be the
headline of a web page or headings of
paragraphs.
The next common tag is the
line break. The tag for a line break is <br>.
This skips text down to the next line. A paragraph
tag opens and closes paragraphs.....<p> and
ending with </p>
For bold text, use
the open/closing tags: <b> and
</b>
For italics, use
the following tags: <i> and
</i>
For underlining
text on a page, use the following tags:
<u> and </u>
For typewriter
text, use the following tags: <tt>
and </tt>
You can also center your text
by using the CENTER tags: <center> and
</center> -- this moves text to the center of
the page or table.
Ruled lines can be used to
separate sections of a page. They can have various
sizes, colors, etc. The tag for a horizontal rule
line that is sized to "7" is as follows:
<hr size=7> (other
features can be added to customize the rule line)
These are basic tags you can
start working with to become familiar with common
HTML tags and how they work. The next step is to
try them on your own. Oh, and if you haven't yet,
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