GeniusHour Lessons Referencing

HTML

Now that we know some more about HTML, lets delve into some elements of HTML

Element

Uses

<head></head>

Used for Meta Data and information about the website.

<meta>

A Meta Data tag used to contain information.

<style></style>

Used to add CSS directly into the HTML file

<title></title>

Defines the title of the document, shown in a browser's title bar or on the page's tab.

<h1></h1> -- <h6></h6>

Used as larger text (a header).

<h1>

<h2>

<h3>

<h4>

<h5>
<h6>

<section></section>

A clarification of a section.

<div></div>

A clarification of a section. See also (section).

<hr>

Adds a line into the HTML document.

<li></li>

Used to define an item in a list.

<ol></ol>

Used to define an ordered list.

<p></p>

Defines a paragraph of text.

<ul></ul>

Defines an unordered list.

<a></a>

Defines a hyper link.

<b></b>

Defines a strong, or bold text.

<br>

Produces a line
break.

<i></i>

Defines italic text.

<s></s>

Defines a text that has been striked out.

<small></small>

Makes the text font size one size smaller.

<span></span>

A generic inline contrainer for phrasing content.

<strong></strong>

Defines bold text.

<sub></sub>

Defines a span of text smaller and lower than the main text.

<sup></sup>

Defines a span of text smaller and higher than the main text.

<u></u>

Defines an underlined text.

<img></img>

Represents an image in the document.

<video></video>

Defines a video to be embed into the document.

<embed></embed>

Defines an intergration point for a third party plug in or interactive content.

<script></script>

Defines a area to implement scripting.

<del></del>

Defines a text that has been striked through.

<ins></ins>

Defines a text that has been added, (just underlined).

<table></table>

Defines a table. (Table being used to display this).

<td></td>

Defines a cell of a table that contains data.

<th></th>

Defines a cell as a header of a group of table cells.

<tr></tr>

Defines a row of cells in a table.

Now, there are many, many more elements within HTML and HTML 5.0 alone. These are just the elements that I have memorized.

If you'd like to know every single HTML 5.0 element, go to the top header bar and click on referencing.