HTML - Basic Tags

Heading Tags

Any document starts with a heading. You can use different sizes for your headings. HTML also has six levels of headings, which use the elements <h1>, <h2>, <h3>, <h4>, <h5>, and <h6>. While displaying any heading, the browser adds one line before and one line after that heading.

Example : 

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
   <head>
      <title>Heading Example</title>
   </head>
   <body>
      <h1>This is heading 1</h1>
      <h2>This is heading 2</h2>
      <h3>This is heading 3</h3>
      <h4>This is heading 4</h4>
      <h5>This is heading 5</h5>
      <h6>This is heading 6</h6>
   </body>
	
</html>

This will produce the following result - 

This is heading 1

This is heading 2

This is heading 3

This is heading 4

This is heading 5
This is heading 6

Paragraph Tag

The <p> tag offers a way to structure your text into different paragraphs. Each paragraph of text should go in between an opening <p> and a closing </p> tag as shown below in the example

Example: 

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
   <head>
      <title>Paragraph Example</title>
   </head>
   <body>
      <p>Here is the first paragraph of the text</p>
      <p>Here is the second paragraph of the text.</p>
      <p>Here is the third paragraph of the text.</p>
   </body>
</html>

This will produce the following result -

Here is the first paragraph of the text.

Here is the second paragraph of the text.

Here is the third paragraph of the text.

Line Break Tag

Whenever you use the <br /> element, anything following it starts from the next line. This tag is an example of an empty element, where you do not need opening and closing tags, as there is nothing to go in between them.

The <br /> tag has a space between the characters br, and the forward slash. If you omit this space, older browsers will have trouble rendering the line break, while if you miss the forward-slash character and just use <br> it is not valid in XHTML.

Example

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
   <head>
      <title>Line Break  Example</title>
   </head>
   <body>
      <p>Hello<br />
         Welcome to your most interactive course on HTML Web Development Language.<br />
         Thanks<br />
         Ekgurukul Dashboard</p>
   </body>
</html>

This will produce the following result -

Hello
Welcome to your most interactive course on HTML Web Development Language.
Thanks
Ekgurukul Dashboard

Centering Content

To put any content in the center of the page or any table cell you can use the <center> HTML tag.

Example

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
   <head>
      <title>Centring Content Example</title>
   </head>
   <body>
      <p>This text is aligned Default as left align.</p>
      <center>
         <p>This text is at the center of the page.</p>
      </center>
   </body>
</html>

This will be the output of the following code : 

This text is aligned default as left align

This text is at the center of the page.

Horizontal Lines

Horizontal lines are used to visually break up sections of a document. The <hr> tag creates a line from the current position in the document to the right margin and breaks the line accordingly.

For example, you may want to give a line between two paragraphs as in the given example below −

Example

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
   <head>
      <title>Horizontal Line Example</title>
   </head>	
   <body>
      <p>Welcome to access HTML basics course with example </p>
      <hr />
      <p>This is paragraph placed after the horizontal line</p>
   </body>
</html>

This will produce the following result -

Welcome to access HTML basics course with example


This is paragraph placed after the horizontal line

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