The Six Essential Tags in HTML

Posted on 21 January 2009 by anon

For a web page to function properly, six essential tags must be present. The six tags must also be placed in specifice order as well and they form the basic ’shell’ or ’skeleton’ for any web page that you build. The six tags and their order is as follows (you have to memorize the tags and the order that they are placed in

In every HTML page, the words starting with < and ending with > are called HTML tags. These tags allow the web browser to display the web page properly.

Most HTML tags have two parts: an opening tag, to indicate where a piece of text begins, and a closing tag, to show where the piece of text ends. Closing tags start with a / (forward slash) just after the < symbol.

For example, the <body> tag tells the web browser where the actual body of text begins and the </body> indicates where it ends. Everything between the <body> and </body> tags will appear in the main display area of hte web browser window.