HTML includes many tags to organize your document. There are outline tags, which break your document in to sections, list tags for numbered lists, unnumbered lists and even lists of definitions. Using structure tags makes it easier for users to understand your documents because you can show users your vision of the structure.
Syntax:
<H#>...</H#>
Outline structure of a document; includes six levels (level 1 is most significant, and level 6 is least). You specify the heading level by replacing # with a number from 1 to 6.
Ordinary text is the workhorse of HTML
Syntax:
<P>...</P>
You need to use the paragraph tag to format text because line breaks are ignored in HTML. For example, if you're using an editor or word processors, and you write:
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
You'll see the line break after the in your editor, but it won't show up in a browser window. (The line break appears in the example above because I've used the <PRE> tag, which tells the browser, "Don't mess with this text --- it looks just the way I want already.") Whenever you want to start a new paragraph, you should use the <P> tag.
Tip
The <P> tag is great for centering objects (not just
plain text), using its ALIGN attribute. For example, the <IMG> tag doesn't
include an attribute to center the image between the right and left margins,
but if you wrapped the <IMG> tag in a <P> tag, and set the <P>
tag's ALIGN attribute to CENTER, you can center the object. You can see an
example of this in the explanation of
nested frames.
Syntax:
:
<UL>
<LI>item
:
<LI>item
</UL>
Each item marked by its own <LI> tag is marked separately, usually by a bullet. The example below is a level three heading, followed by an unnumbered list.
Syntax:
<OL>
<LI>item
:
<LI>item
</OL>
Each item marked by its own <LI> tag is numbered consecutively when displayed.The example below is a level two heading, followed by a numbered list.
Remember: Put on your pants one leg at a time, unless you don't want to be "just like the rest of us".
Syntax:
<DL>
<DT>term
<DD>definition
:
<DT>term
<DD>definition
</DL>
You can let terms and their definitions with definition lists (also called dictionary lists); each definition is a <DT>, <DD> pair. Here's a (very) short definition list: