HTML Essentials: The Top 10 Tags Every Web Developer Should Know

Mar 9, 2023

HTML is like the building blocks of web pages. It's a language that uses tags to create the structure and content of a webpage. In this blog, we'll go over some of the key HTML tags that every web developer should know.

<!DOCTYPE html> - This tag is used to declare the HTML version being used on the web page. The current HTML version is HTML5, and the doctype declaration for HTML5 is:
```
 <!DOCTYPE html>
```
<html> - This tag defines the beginning and end of an HTML document. All other HTML tags are nested within the <html> tag.
```
 <html>
 
 </html>
```

<head> - This tag contains meta-information about the web page, such as the title, author, and keywords. It doesn't contain any visible content on the page.

 <head>
 <title>Page Title</title>
 <meta name="description" content="Page description">
 <meta name="keywords" content="keyword1, keyword2, keyword3">
 </head>

<body> - This tag contains all the visible content of the web page, such as text, images, and videos.
```
 <body>
 
 </body>
```

<h1> to <h6> - These tags are used to define headings of different sizes. <h1> is the largest heading, and <h6> is the smallest.

 <h1>Heading 1</h1>
 <h2>Heading 2</h2>
 <h3>Heading 3</h3>
 <h4>Heading 4</h4>
 <h5>Heading 5</h5>
 <h6>Heading 6</h6>

<p> - This tag is used to define a paragraph of text.
```
 <p>This is a paragraph of text.</p>
```
<a> - This tag is used to create a hyperlink to another web page or a file.
```
 <a href="https://www.example.com">Link text</a>
```
<img> - This tag is used to insert an image into the web page.
```
 <img src="image.jpg" alt="Image description">
```

<ul> and <li> - These tags are used to create an unordered list.

 <ul>
   <li>List item 1</li>
   <li>List item 2</li>
   <li>List item 3</li>
 </ul>

<ol> and <li> - These tags are used to create an ordered list.

<ol>
  <li>List item 1</li>
  <li>List item 2</li>
  <li>List item 3</li>
</ol>

In this article, we discussed the most important html tags that you need to know for a basic site. Hope you enjoyed!

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