Copyright Goodheart-Willcox Co., Inc. 538 Unit 3 Living Online Goodheart-Willcox Publisher Figure 13-18. These are basic HTML tags used in creating a web page. Start Tag End Tag Purpose html /html Identifies a document as a hypertext document and contains all other HTML code. head /head Identifies the portion of the document that contains information about the page. title /title Contains the text that appears in the title bar of the browser window. body /body Identifies the portion of the document that is displayed in the browser window the content of the page. strong /strong Contains text (content) that is important often displayed in bold, but how it is displayed is controlled by the CSS. em /em Contains text (content) that is emphasized often displayed in italic, but how it is displayed is controlled by the CSS. a /a Defines the anchor for a hyperlink. p /p Identifies a paragraph of text text will wrap if the browser window is resized. br none Defines a single line break content after the tag is displayed on the next line. img none Identifies an image to be displayed in the browser window height and width of the image can also be specified. h1 to h6 /h1 to /h6 Heading tags determine font sizes where h1 is the largest and h6 is the smallest. Note: there is a font tag with more options, such as typeface, italics, etc., but this tag is not supported in HTML5. ! DOCTYPE html html title My First Web Page /title body h1 Hello World! /h1 /body /html Goodheart-Willcox Publisher Figure 13-19. The HTML code for creating a basic web page.