HTML Documents
All HTML documents must start with a document type declaration:
<!DOCTYPE html>
.
The HTML document itself begins with
<html>
and ends with </html>
.
The visible part of the HTML document is between
<body>
and </body>
.Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h1>My First Heading</h1>
<p>My first paragraph.</p>
</body>
</html>
HTML Headings
HTML headings are defined with the
<h1>
to <h6>
tags.<h1>
defines the most important heading. <h6>
defines the least important heading: Example
<h1>This is heading 1</h1>
<h2>This is heading 2</h2>
<h3>This is heading 3</h3>
HTML Paragraphs
HTML paragraphs are defined with the
<p>
tag:Example
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
<p>This is another paragraph.</p>
HTML Links
HTML links are defined with the
<a>
tag:Example
<a href="https://www.w3schools.com">This is a link</a>
The link's destination is specified in the
href
attribute.
Attributes are used to provide additional information about HTML elements.
You will learn more about attributes in a later chapter.
HTML Images
HTML images are defined with the
<img>
tag.
The source file (
src
), alternative text (alt
), width
, and height
are provided as attributes:Example
<img src="w3schools.jpg" alt="W3Schools.com" width="104" height="142">
HTML Buttons
HTML buttons are defined with the
<button>
tag:Example
<button>Click me</button>
HTML Lists
HTML lists are defined with the
<ul>
(unordered/bullet list) or the <ol>
(ordered/numbered list) tag, followed by <li>
tags (list items):Example
<ul>
<li>Coffee</li>
<li>Tea</li>
<li>Milk</li>
</ul>
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