HTML Tags and their meanings

     

                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Here is the list of Html tags where you can easily go through them.

TAGS                     MEANING

<html>                         defines the root of an HTML document
<head>                         defines information about the document ,including  meta data and scripts
<body>                         defines the document’s  body
<!--….-->                     defines a comment
<!DOCTYPE>             defines the document type
<h1> to <h6>               HTML headings h1(the biggest) to  h6( the smallest)
<meta>                         defines a meta data for an HTML document
<p>                               defines a paragraph
<img>                           defines an image
<br>                              defines a single line break
<hr>                              defines a horizontal line
<div>                            defines a section in a document
<style>                         defines  style information for a document
<script>                        defines a client side script
<noscript>                    defines an alternative content for users that do not support client-side scripts
<embed>                      defines a container for an external(non-html) application
<area>                          defines an area inside an image-map
<object>                       defines an embedded object
<param>                       defines a parameter for an object
<map>                          defines a client-side image-map
<applet>                       defines an embedded  applet(not supported in HTML 5)


LINKS  AND  FORMATTING


<a>                           defines a hyperlink
<link>                       defines the relationship between a document and an external resource
<blockquote>           defines a section that is quoted from another source
<cite>                       defines the title of a work
<code>                     defines a piece of computer code
<ins>                        defines inserted text
<em>                       defines emphasized text
<del>                       defines text that has been deleted from a document
<b>                          defines a bold text
<i>                           defines italic text
<u>                          underlines the text
<big>                       defines bigger text
<small>                   defines smaller text
<strong>                  defines important text(highlights the text)
<sub>                      defines subscripted text
<sup>                      defines a superscripted text
<font>                     defines font,  color, size(not supported in HTML 5)
<base>                    specifies the base URL/target for all relative URL’s in a document

FORMS


<form>                   defines an HTML form for user input
<input>                   defines an input control
<textarea>              defines a multiline input control(text area)
<button>                 defines a clickable bbutton
<select>                  defines a drop-down list
<option>                 defines an option in a drop-down list
<optgroup>             defines a group of related options in a drop-down list
<label>                   defines a label for an <input> element
<fieldset>               groups related elements in a form
<legend>                defines a caption for a <fieldset> element

FRAMES

<iframe>                defines an inline frame
<frame>                 defines a window inn a frameset(not supported in html 5)
<noframes>            defines an alternate content  for users that do not support frames(not supported in                                  Html 5)

LISTS

<li>                          defines a list item
<ul>                         defines an unordered list
<ol>                         defines an ordered list
<dir>                        defines a directory list
<menu>                    list of commands
<dl>                          defines a description list
<dt>                          defines a term/name in a description list
<dd>                         defines a description/value of a term in a description list

TABLES

<table>                     defines a table
<tr>                           defines a table row
<td>                           defines a cell in a table
<th>                           defines a header cell in a table
<thead>                      groups the header content in a table
<tbody>                      groups the body content in a table
<tfooot>                      groups the footer content in a table
<caption>                    defines a table caption

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