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Basic HTML Tags That You Will Use Most Often

HTML is the basic programming language of the web. It is what your browser reads and interprets for you. Learning it is not very hard. It is almost like writing very basic and much abbreviated English. When you are coding HTML for your website, you will use a few terms very often. Just knowing the most often used tags will enable you to code basic websites using nothing but those tags.

The P Tag

This is the paragraph tag. When coding, you would start with a ‘<’, then a ‘p’, then a ‘>.’ When you are done with the paragraph, you would close the tag with a ‘<’, then a ‘/’, then a ‘p’, then a ‘>.’

Unlike writing in a word processor where you press enter twice for a new paragraph, when writing HTML, you would use the P tag instead. You can have one long line with only these tags to differentiate the paragraphs and it will look okay when you post it on the web.

The H1 Tag

This is the header tag which will bold and increase the font size of what is included. You would write this the same way as the paragraph tags. Actually all tags are written in the same way.

H1 will give you the biggest headline. There are several different levels that you can use. You can go all the way down to H6 if you wanted to. But then, if you go that low, the font size might end up being smaller than your text.

The FONT Tag

This lets you choose the font you want to choose. You would write FONT=[your font name] inside the ‘<’ and ‘>.’

A word of warning: Do not use seldom used fonts that not everyone may have. If you use a font like that, not everybody will be able to display it on their computer. If they do not have the font installed, the default font will be used which may disrupt the formatting you have done. If you absolutely have to use that specific font, use it in an image processing program and turn it into an image to insert to your website.

The IMG Tag

You use this tag to insert an image. To insert an image, you first must upload your image to your website or an image sharing site. In code you would write ‘<’, then ‘img’, then ‘src=[image link]‘, then ‘>.’

If you use an image in place of text, though, you will need to insert an ALT property that includes the text so that the search engines can read it. So before you put the ‘>’ to end the tag, you would include ALT=[your text for the image].

The ALT Property

This is the property that was mentioned in the previous section. You use this tag to include search engine friendly text for images that the search engines cannot see. You would want to include one of these with every image you use. Use descriptive keyword rich text to describe what is in the pictures.

The A Tag

This is most often used in connection with the HREF property. This is to link to other pages and other sites. In code, it is written ‘<’, then ‘a’, then ‘href=”[link]“‘, then’>’, then ‘[link description]‘, then ‘<’, then ‘/’, then ‘a’, then ‘>.’ You can also use the ALT property to add some text that will show when people mouse over the link. You can have it show ‘Click me!’ by using this property.

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