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Expression Web 4: Most Commonly Used HTML Tags
You only need to learn a handful of HTML tags in order to use
Expression Web Successfully. And you don't even have to write
any of the code.
HTML Tags
HTML Tags, or Elements, are used to Structure a Web Page.
For instance, the <div> tag is used to make the various sections
of the Layout. Then we have <h1> through <h6> Heading tags
which are used to format text into headings.
- <div>
- :used to 'divide' a web page into sections.
Example: Make a Layout (more
about the div)
- <p>
- :defines a paragraph (creating
paragraphs)
- h1, h2, h3
- :defines Heading Tags.
- <ul>
- :creates a bulleted list. (ul=unordered list)
Example: Used to make Navigation Menus.
- <ol>
- :creates a numbered list. (ol=ordered list)
- <li>
- :each item in a list is wrapped in <li> </li> Tags.
(li=list item)
- <a>
- :indicates a hyperlink. (a=anchor) An anchor
is really the text used to create the hyperlink.
- <img>
- :defines an image in the HTML. (this is different
from CSS images)
- <br>
- :inserts a line break. (empty space, a white space
character)
- <blockquote>
- :defines a chunk of text as a quote.
- <span>
- :Used along with a class style to define the portion of
text that is targeted to be styled. (this is not a tag
we will use directly, rather, it is inserted for us.)
- <iframe>
- :inline frame. Is a page within a page.
(avoid using if possible. not accessible, and not valid with
all doctypes)
- <address>
- :can be used to wrap around an address. Will make
the text italicized by default. But, create a CSS
Style using "address" as the Tag Selector, and style the
address any way you would like.