| HTML Element |
<html> |
- Root of an HTML document
- All content for HTML document is contained between <html> tags
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| Body Element |
<body> |
- Represents content of HTML document
- Content inside is rendered on web browser
- There can only be one <body> element in a document
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| Head Element |
<head> |
- Contains general information (metadata) about HTML page
- Includes e.g. the title of an HTML page & links to stylesheets
- Isn't displayed on the web page
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| Title Element |
<title> |
- Contains title of an HTML document
- Displayed in the browser's title bar
- Contained inside <head> element
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| Heading Element |
<h1> - <h6> |
- HTML can use six levels of heading elements
- Ordered from biggest (<h1>) to lowest (<h6>)
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| Div Element |
<div> |
- Container that divides an HTML document into sections
- Short for "division"
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| Paragraph Element |
<p> |
- Contains & displays a block of text
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| Line Break Element |
<br> |
- Creates a line break in text
- Requires no closing tag
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| Span Element |
<span> |
- Inline container for text
- Can be used to group text for styling purposes
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| Strong Element |
<strong> |
- Highlights important, serious, or urgent text
- Browsers will normally render text in bold by default
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| Emphasis Element |
<em> |
- Emphasises text
- Browsers will normally italicize text by default
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| Ordered List Element |
<ol> |
- Creates list of items in sequential order
- Items will appear numbered by default
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| Unordered List Element |
<ul> |
- Creates list of items in no particular order
- Items will appear with bullet points by default
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| List Item Element |
<li> |
- Creates list item inside ordered/unordered lists
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| Anchor Element |
<a href="..."> |
- Creates hyperlink that can point to other webpages, files on the same server, a location on the same page, or any other URL
- The hyperlink reference attribute (href) determines location the anchor element points to
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| Target Attribute |
<a target="..."> |
- Specifies where a hyperlink should be opened
- Nested inside <a> opening tag
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| Video Element |
<video src="..." controls> |
- Embeds media player for video playback
- src attribute contains URL of video
- controls attribute displays video controls in the media player
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| Image Element |
<img src="..." alt="..."> |
- Embeds image in documents
- src attribute contains URL of image
- Requires no closing tag
- alt attribute contains alternative text if image fails to render
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