Note: This page displays the collection of all the HTML tags. All the tags shown on this page are discussed in detail as you move further in this tutorial. You will master all these tags in this HTML tutorial.
Basic HTML Tags
| Tag | Description |
|---|---|
| <html> | Describes an HTML document. |
| <head> | Represents head section of the HTML document. |
| <title> | Describes the title of HTML document. |
| <body> | Describes content of the document. |
| <!--...--> | This tag is used to insert comment inside document code. |
We have explained about HTML head tag here.
HTML Heading Tags
| Tag | Description |
|---|---|
| <h1> | This is the highest heading 1 |
| <h2> | Second level heading 2 |
| <h3> | Third level heading 3 |
| <h4> | Fourth level heading 4 |
| <h5> | Fifth level heading 5 |
| <h6> | This is the least heading 6 |
HTML Link Tags
| Tag | Description |
|---|---|
| <base> | Describes the base URL to all other relative URLs. |
| <a> | Specifies a hyperlink. |
For more details about HTML Link Tags refer here.
HTML Scripting Tags
| Tag | Description |
|---|---|
| <script> | Describes client- side script that is JavaScript. |
| <noscript> | When scripts are disabled <noscript> tag provides alternative details to the users. |
Everything about HTML Scripting Tags.
HTML Table Tags
| Tag | Description |
|---|---|
| <table> | To define a Table in HTML. |
| <caption> | To define a Table caption in HTML. It is like a name of the table |
| <th | th is like "Table Head" to specify the header cell in the table. It is used to provide the Column name of a table. |
| <tr> | tr is like "Table Row" to specify the row in a table. It is used for each row of a table. |
| <td> | td is like "Table Data" to specify a cell in a table. |
| <thead> | thead is like "Table Head" used to change the properties like the color of the Header content in HTML table. We can change the properties of the heading. |
| <tbody> | tbody is like "Table Body" used to change the properties like the color of the content in the body in HTML table. We can change the properties of the body. |
| <tfoot> | tfoot is like "Table footer" used to change the properties like the color of the footer content in HTML table. We can change the properties of a footer. |
| <col> | Defines the properties of each column within colgroup. |
| <colgroup> | It is used to specify a group of one or more columns in a table for formatting. |
Refer HTML Table Tag for more details.
HTML Form Tags
| Tag | Description |
|---|---|
| <form> | Form is used in all the websites to collect information about user who visits your website. |
| <input> | It is an input field where user can give there details in the given form. |
| <textarea> | Represent a multi-line plain-text editing control. |
| <button> | Creates various clickable buttons like submit, reset, cancel, ok and many more. |
| <select> | Describes a drop-down list. |
| <optgroup> | Display group of options related lists in the form of drop down list. |
| <option> | Displays option in drop down list. |
| <label> | Describes text label with a form input field. |
| <fieldset> | To form related data in group <fieldset> element is used. |
| <legend> | Represent caption of <fieldset> element. |
| <datalist> | The pre-defined option is specified in drop down list. |
| <output> | Declares results of calculation. |
We have explained more about HTML Form Tags.
HTML Text Tags
| Tag | Description |
|---|---|
| <abbr> | Specifies abbreviations. |
| <address> | We can provide contact details of page author using address element. |
| <b> | It is used to bold text. |
| <bdi> | BDI means Bi-Directional Isolation. It formats the text in different direction. |
| <bdo> | Describes bi-directional override of the text. |
| <blockquote> | The HTML blockquote element is used to format a block of text as a long quote which is indented more than the surrounding text. |
| <cite> | It specifies the work title. |
| <code> | Specifies text in computer code. |
| <del> | It defines deleted text in HTML document. |
| <dfn> | This tag is used for definition term in HTML. |
| <em> | Formats text in document to emphasized text. |
| <i> | Formats text in document to italic text. |
| <ins> | ins describes inserted text in HTML document. |
| <kbd> | Denotes the text given by user that is keyboard input. |
| <mark> | marks the text. |
| <meter> | Within the predefined range <meter> tag specifies scalar measurement known as gauge. |
| <pre> | Describes preformatted text in HTML page. It is used to maintain the existing spaces or line breaks. |
| <progress> | Progress of any task is defined by progress bar. |
| <q> | Declares short quotations. |
| <rp> | This tag is used to help browsers which is not supported by ruby annotation. |
| <rt | Specifies Character pronunciation of ruby annotations. |
| <ruby> | Specifies a ruby annotation which is used to show many East Asian languages. |
| <s> | Specifies that given text is incorrect and it strike through text. |
| <samp> | Describes sample output from computer program. |
| <small> | Describe smaller text. |
| <strong> | Used for describing important text. |
| <sub> | We can give subscript to text. |
| <sup> | used for giving superscripted to text. |
| <template> | For a template. |
| <time> | Specifies date and time in HTML document. |
| <tt> | Describe teletype text. |
| <var> | Specifies name of variable in mathematical expression or programming context. |
| <wbr> | Specifies position within text where browser may optionally break a line. |
HTML Image Tags
| Tag | Description |
|---|---|
| <img> | Represents an image. |
| <map> | Represent map within <img> tag. And the image map contains clickable areas. |
| <area> | It is used to define area inside an image-map, where it contains clickable region on an image map. |
| <canvas> | This tag in HTML5 is used to draw graphics on web page using JavaScript. |
| <figcaption> | This tag gives Caption to figure element. This can be placed as first or last child of <figure> element. |
| <figure> | It defines media content with captions. Content of <figure> element belongs to main flow. |
| <svg> | It is a language used to describe 2D graphics and graphical applications in XML. |
Refer HTML Image Tags for more information
HTML Meta Tags
| Tag | Description |
|---|---|
| <head> | Represents head section of the HTML document which contains the meta information about the HTML Page |
| <meta> | Describes the metadata of HTML page where it contains page description, author of the page, keywords. |
| <base> | Describes the base URL to all other relative URLs. |
| <basefont> | This tag is used to specify font size, color and font family for the document. (Deprecated) |
you can click here for more explanation about Meta Tags
HTML Object Tags
| Tag | Description |
|---|---|
| <object> | It is used to embed multimedia in HTML documents like video, audio, Java applets, ActiveX, PDF, and Flash. |
HTML List Tags
Keyword Parameters are those parameters which does not follow a fixed position and can appear in any position or order. You can change the position of the keyword parameters as you wish.
| Tag | Description |
|---|---|
| <ul> | Tag is used for unordered list. The list will have items as bulleted items |
| <ol> | Represents an ordered list in either Numeric or alphabetical order |
| <li> | It represents an item or items in a list. We can list the term and term description below this |
| <dl> | Used for description list. |
| <dt> | For Term in the description list. |
| <dd> | This tag represents Term description in the description list. |
| <menu> | Represents the list of commands which is used to build menus. |
| <menuitem> | Represents the command that the user can invoke from a popup menu. |
We have explained about HTML Lists here in details
Unclosed HTML Tags
| Tag | Description |
|---|---|
| <hr> | Represents thematic break between paragraph-level elements in the HTML document. If we use this, it will insert a horizontal line. |
| <br> | It is used to break a line(line break). |
To know more about Unclosed Tags click here
Interview Questions & Answer
Tag is an HTML code that defines every structure on an HTML page. Tags begin with “<>” and end with “</>”. Most of the tag contains opening and closing tag.
For example,
…….
<> – Opening tag.
</> – Closing tag.
Most of the HTML tags have a closing tag as well but there are few HTML tags/elements that do not require closing tags and they are:-
<br>- break line
<hr> – horizontal line
There are 6 headings in HTML:-
<h1>……</h1>
<h2>……</h2>
<h3>……</h3>
<h4>……</h4>
<h5>……</h5>
<h6>……</h6>
There are three tags that can be used to separate a section of texts.
<br> – For line break.
<hr>- To separate Paragraph.
<q>- For large quoted section.