HTML Basics Tutorial

Description list Description lists group terms and descriptions into a single list and require three elements to complete the list: <dl>: Holds the list descriptions (dl = description list) <dt>: Defines…

Unordered list A bulleted list contains one or more items each prefaced by a bullet (often a big dot). Use this kind of list if the items’ order isn’t necessary…

Ordered list Ordered lists or numbered lists contain list items each prefaced by a number. We use a numbered list when the order or priority of items is important. We…

Lists Lists are powerful tools to group similar elements, and lists give visitors to your site an easy way to zoom in on groups of information. Just about anything fits…

More formatting elements Paragraphs Paragraphs appear more often than any other text block in web pages. HTML browsers don’t recognize hard returns that you enter when you create your page…

Other text elements Denoting a Generic Span of Content The span element has no meaning in its own right. We use it to apply one of the global attributes to a region…

Working with language elements The ruby, rt, and rp elements Ruby characters are notations placed above or to the right of characters in logographic languages (such as Chinese or Japanese), and that aid the…

Abbreviations, Definitions, Quotations and Citations Denoting Abbreviations The abbr element allows us to denote an abbreviation. When using this element, we use the title attribute to provide the expanded text that the…

Creating Breaks There are two elements that you can use to deal with line breaks in content: the br and wbr elements. Forcing a Line Break The br element introduces a line break. The style convention…

Basic text formatting elements The first set of text elements that you will look at have been around in HTML for a while. Some of these elements represented text formatting…