The Guide - More Tags

Introduction to HTML

	Introduction
	Tools Required - An ASCII text editor.
	Understanding HTML Tags
	More Tags some essential tags.
	BODY Tag revisited
	Conclusion
	Some Important links: List of links which will help you get started

Related Links

1.	World Wide Web Consortium - Organization which defines HTML Standards
2.	Validation Service - Validate your HTML codet

More Tags: Some essential tags

Some more interesting tags are given below.

<HR> makes the browser render a horizontal etched line

<H1> and </H1> indicate a first level heading. There are sixlevels of headings. So, we also have <H2> and </H2>, <H3> and </H3> and so on upto <H6> and </H6>. Each level indcates a pre-defined font size. The higher the level number, the smaller is the font size.
<EM> and </EM> emphasise the text in between
<I> and </I> italicise the text in between
<P> and </P> indicate start and end of a paragraph
<S> and </S> stike the enclosed text with a horizontal line
<SUB> and </SUB> subscript the enclosed text
<SUP> and </SUP> superscrpt the enclosed text

Some tags such as <BODY> have attributes. Two such tags are presented below.

The attributes are specified in the start tag.

Example : <FONT FACE = Desdemona>

If the specified font face is not installed on your machine
the browser displays a default font face.

<A> and </A> adds the hypertext link. One of its several
attributes is HREF which indicates the address to which the
browser points when the enclosed text is clicked.

Example :

I am reading this tutorial on
<A Href = "http://guide.vsnl.net.in">VSNL Website</A>