Basic Tags

<html></html> Creates an HTML document

<head></head> Sets off the title and other information that isn't displayed on the web page itself

<body></body> Sets off the visible portion of the document

Meta and other unseen markup

<!DOCTYPE> Declares the doctype so the browser knows whether to expect HTML4 (<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">) or HTML5 (<!DOCTYPE html>)

<meta /> Metadata tag, typically used to telling the browser how to behave at different sizes and for search engines/social networks to pull headline, photo and description when shared

<link /> Link tags are used to attach external documents to your HTML. Most commonly used to attach CSS stylesheets and RSS feeds

<script></script> Script tags are used to attach Javascript files to your HTML, or author JS right on the page.

 Inserting comments in your HTML can be useful for leaving yourself notes in case you need to revisit your code later

Text Tags

<pre></pre> Creates preformatted text

<h1></h1> Creates the largest headline

<h6></h6> Creates the smallest headline

<strong></strong> Creates bold text

<em></em> Creates italic text (em for emphasize)

Links

<a href="URL"></a> Creates a hyperlink

<a href="mailto:EMAIL"></a> Creates a mailto link

<a href="#ID"></a> Creates an anchor tag -- a link to a location within this document

Formatting

<p></p> Creates a new paragraph

<br /> Inserts a line break

<ol></ol> Creates a numbered list (ol stands for ordered list)

<ul></ul> Creates a bulleted list (ul stands for unordered list)

<li></li> Precedes each list item, and adds a number or symbol depending upon the type of list selected

<div></div> A generic tag used to format large blocks of HTML, also used for stylesheets

<img src="url" /> Adds an image

<hr /> Inserts a horizontal rule

Tables -- CAN NOT BE MADE TRULY RESPONSIVE

<table></table> Creates a table

<tr></tr> Creates a row

<td></td> Creates a cell

<th></th> Creates a header cell (top of the column)

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