What are Elements and Tags?
Elements are any matching pair of opening and closing tags or single tags that do not require a closing tag, they are the little symblos you will see before and after content in your html document
For example if you want to make the words “elements and tags” bold in your document you would enter this:
and you should get this: elements and tags
If you want to make it italic also you would use this:
and you should get: elements and tags
If you want to make a piece of text centered on your page your would use
And you will get this:
Although using the center tags will work, it is not used much anymore
Here are a few commonly used tags to get started with
For now that is enough to give you an idea of elements and tags to customize the layout of your content. There are many more that you will come across in your HTML document later on
Here are some other basic tags and their uses
Line break (does not require a closing tag)
<br/>
Page headings from biggest to smallest
<h1> to <h6>
Horizontal rule
<hr>
Paragraph
<p>
Also makes text bold
<strong>
Ordered list and unordered list
<ol> and <ul>
List item
<li>


