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Common HTML Tags
With the above example, we can only set up a basic webpage with not much content. In reality, an HTML document is composed of several different elements, each of them having a unique purpose. Let's see some of the common ones in the table below.
| HTML Element | Tag | Usage |
|---|---|---|
| Headings | <h1> to <h6> | Defines headings with <h1> being the most important to <h6> being the least important |
| Paragraphs | <p> | Creates new paragraphs |
| Hyperlinks | <a> | Creates a hyperlink by specifying the URL in the href attribute with the opening tag |
| Images | <img> | Adds images to the document by specifying the image path in the src attribute of the opening tag. This element does not have a closing tag. |