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Learning HTML: The <Body> Section

The Body Tag

The <body> tag is the block formatting element that surrounds all other homepage content. Don't forget to end your page with a </body> tag followed by a </html> tag.

Text displayed on a web page can be categorized into Block-Level and Inline tags.

Block-Level tags may contain Inline tags and other Block-Level elements. Block-Level tags format groupings of text (words, sentences, paragraphs, etc.), usually by inserting something before or after the text, or by positioning the text.

Inline tags format sections of text, words, or even individual letters at a time and may contain only text and other inline tags. Block-Level tags are formatted differently than Inline tags and begin on new lines, while Inline tags do not.

Style sheets provide the means to specify the rendering of arbitrary text sections, including whether an element is rendered as block or inline. This is preferred instead of tags and attributes like <font ... >, align, color, etc.

Grouping Tags

Logical Division

Used to mark up divisions in a document, <div> ... </div>, can enclose other block elements. Use this tag in conjunction with style sheets to format sections of the page.

Span

Used to mark up inline elements in a document. <span> ... </span>. Use this tag in conjunction with style sheets to format sections of inline text.

Headings

The heading tag displays text in larger or bolder fonts than normal text. It is used like the levels in an outline. There are six levels of headings, numbered 1 to 6 with 1 being the largest and 6 being the smallest. Search engines may give words appearing in headers more importance in their index.

`<h1>Heading 1</h1>`

`<h2>Heading 2</h2>`

`<h3>Heading 3</h3>`

`<h4>Heading 4</h4>`

`<h5>Heading 5</h5>`

`<h6>Heading 6</h6>`

Address Information

The <Address> tag is used to enclose contact information, addresses and the like. It is often rendered with a slightly indented left margin and italics. Use the <br> (line break) tag for explicit line breaks after each line.

<address>Peter Conrad Cumminsky<br> Middletown, CA 95461</address>

Peter Conrad Cumminsky
Middletown, CA 95461

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