html basics: tags

HTML Tags are the basic units or building blocks of a webpage. They're the stuff you use to actually tell the browser what to do with your text/content. For this tutorial, we'll go over the most basic tags you might often use when making your website.

To start off, we need to know what a tag is, and what it's basically made of:

The Big Building Blocks

The html tag

The head tag

The body tag

The main tag


Blocks and Paragraphs

The article tag

The aside tag

The div tag

The paragraph tag

The nav tag

The header tag

Headings and Contents

The headings tags

The section tag

The span tag

The code tag

The unordered list tags

The links and anchor tag

The blockquote tag

The definition tag

Media Tags

The img tag

The iframe tag

The audio tag

The figure tag