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The following table lists some of the most common HTML tags that you'll use to build your website. After you've worked in HTML for a little while, these tags will become second nature to you.

Tag Name Code Example
> anchor href="http://www.yourdomain.com/">Click Here
bold Bold Type
body of document All of the contents of your Web page.

line break Soft line break
Soft line break
center
Center your content
font face="Times New Roman">Example
form
action="mailto:[email protected]">
Name: "Name" value=" size="10" />

heading 1

Heading 1 Example

heading 2

Heading 2 Example

heading 3

Heading 3 Example
heading of document Contains elements describing the document
hypertext markup language Title of your webpageWebpage contents
i> italic i>Italic Typei>
  		• list item
      "i">
    1. List item 1
    2. List item 2
    3. List item 3
    4. List item 4
    meta name="Description" content="Description of your site" />
     name="keywords" content="keywords describing your site" />
      		ordered list

      1. List item 1

      2. List item 2

      3. List item 3

      4. List item 4

        		5.

        		paragraph

        This creates a line break and a space between lines.
        document title Title of your webpage
          		unordered list

          • List item 1

          • List item 2

            		•

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