* *** HTML_TAGS_EMAIL TXT - 27 May 2024  23:35:46 - JGKNAUTH

(Email I sent to some people in my NBTHA HOA long ago.)

Someone asked for some information about HTML tags.  Here is a summary
by way of examples.

The meaningful content of an HTML/CSS document (what you are trying to
tell the reader) is provided in the body section of the document.  The
formatting directives for that content (spacing, font size and weight,
color, backgrounds, etc.) are put in the CSS style sections in the head
part of the document.  For now, you will deal only with what goes in the
body part.

To do probably 95% of what you will ever have to consider, very few HTML
tags are needed, e.g., to create paragraphs, lists, emphasis (bold,
italics, underlining), and forced line breaks.  You can also create
skeleton tags for headings and links, which might be completed later by
the webmaster.

Pieces of the content, e.g., a paragraph, are delimited by beginning and
end tags, the <...> and </...> things, as shown in the examples.

Here is a sample document with the results (as displayed by your
browser) shown first, followed by the HTML/CSS source code that produced
those results: http://jgkhome.name/HTML_CSS/MM_coding_examples.htm
Flip back and forth between them to see how the source produces the
display.  You can also print the file, which might make the comparison
easier to do.

Just look at the body section of the source code for now; that's where
the tags are located.

If you are interested, a lot more detail about such things is given in
http://jgkhome.name/HTML_CSS/HTML_CSS_TOC.htm.  Included there is the
three-hour class I give to people who want to learn HTML/CSS, which is
a very useful thing to learn.

Jeff