- HTML Basic Examples
- HTML Documents
- Example
- My First Heading
- The Declaration
- HTML Headings
- Example
- This is heading 1
- This is heading 2
- This is heading 3
- HTML Paragraphs
- Example
- HTML Links
- Example
- HTML Images
- Example
- How to View HTML Source
- View HTML Source Code:
- Inspect an HTML Element:
- HTML Basic Tags
- HTML documents
- Example of an HTML document:
- HTML headings
- Example of the HTML headings:
- Result
- HTML paragraphs
- Example of the HTML paragraphs:
- Result
- HTML images
- Example of the HTML images:
- Result
- HTML links
- Example of the HTML links:
- Result
- HTML buttons
- Example of the HTML tag:
- HTML lists
- Example of the HTML lists:
- HTML horizontal lines
- Example of the HTML tag:
HTML Basic Examples
In this chapter we will show some basic HTML examples.
Don’t worry if we use tags you have not learned about yet.
HTML Documents
All HTML documents must start with a document type declaration: .
The HTML document itself begins with and ends with .
The visible part of the HTML document is between
and .Example
My First Heading
My first paragraph.
The Declaration
The declaration represents the document type, and helps browsers to display web pages correctly.
It must only appear once, at the top of the page (before any HTML tags).
The declaration is not case sensitive.
The declaration for HTML5 is:
HTML Headings
HTML headings are defined with the to tags.
defines the most important heading. defines the least important heading:
Example
This is heading 1
This is heading 2
This is heading 3
HTML Paragraphs
HTML paragraphs are defined with the
tag:
Example
This is a paragraph.
This is another paragraph.
HTML Links
HTML links are defined with the tag:
Example
The link’s destination is specified in the href attribute.
Attributes are used to provide additional information about HTML elements.
You will learn more about attributes in a later chapter.
HTML Images
HTML images are defined with the tag.
The source file ( src ), alternative text ( alt ), width , and height are provided as attributes:
Example
How to View HTML Source
Have you ever seen a Web page and wondered «Hey! How did they do that?»
View HTML Source Code:
Right-click in an HTML page and select «View Page Source» (in Chrome) or «View Source» (in Edge), or similar in other browsers. This will open a window containing the HTML source code of the page.
Inspect an HTML Element:
Right-click on an element (or a blank area), and choose «Inspect» or «Inspect Element» to see what elements are made up of (you will see both the HTML and the CSS). You can also edit the HTML or CSS on-the-fly in the Elements or Styles panel that opens.
HTML Basic Tags
Understanding basic HTML tags is important while learning HTML. Here are the HTML elements that are used more frequently than others. They are:
- the heading — tags,
- the tag,
- the tag,
- the tag,
HTML documents
All HTML documents must start with a declaration which specifies the document type: .
The HTML document begins with and ends with