Chapter 02: The Common Tags

Headings are some of the most important tags within the BODY of your HTML document. You will usually use a heading to tell what the following section of your page is about. The opening tag for a heading is and the closing tag is with y being the size of the heading… from 1 to 6. (1 being largest, and 6 being smallest)

Example of heading tags… H1: Bob fell over the chicken.

H1: Bob fell over the chicken.

H2: Bob fell over the chicken.

H3: Bob fell over the chicken.

H4: Bob fell over the chicken.

H5: Bob fell over the chicken.

H6: Bob fell over the chicken.

Horizontal Ruled Lines…

Horizontal Ruled Lines are used to separate different areas of a web page. The tag for a horizontal ruled line is <hr>. The horizontal ruled line DOES NOT have a closing tag. You may also add certain attributes to the <hr> tag, such as WIDTH=n (for fixed pixel width) or WIDTH=n% for a certain percentage of the screen wide, SIZE=n to make the line a certain pixel amount thick, and NOSHADE to turn the line's shading off. A plain <hr> with no attributes will make the line the full width of the screen.

Example of horizontal ruled lines…

You may also use several attributes within one tag… <hr width=50% size=10 noshade>

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