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This document discusses several basic HTML tags for formatting text, including headings, paragraphs, line breaks, centering content, horizontal lines, preserving formatting, and nonbreaking spaces. It provides examples of how each tag is written and how it will display text in the browser. The tags covered are <h1>-<h6> for headings, <p> for paragraphs, <br> for line breaks, <center> for centering, <hr> for horizontal lines, <pre> for preserving formatting, and &nbsp; for nonbreaking spaces.

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HTML - Basic Tags - Tutorialspoint

This document discusses several basic HTML tags for formatting text, including headings, paragraphs, line breaks, centering content, horizontal lines, preserving formatting, and nonbreaking spaces. It provides examples of how each tag is written and how it will display text in the browser. The tags covered are <h1>-<h6> for headings, <p> for paragraphs, <br> for line breaks, <center> for centering, <hr> for horizontal lines, <pre> for preserving formatting, and &nbsp; for nonbreaking spaces.

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HTML - Basic Tags

Heading Tags
Any document starts with a heading. You can use different sizes for your headings. HTML also
has six levels of headings, which use the elements <h1>, <h2>, <h3>, <h4>, <h5>, and <h6>.
While displaying any heading, browser adds one line before and one line after that heading.

Example
 Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
<title>Heading Example</title>
</head>

<body>
<h1>This is heading 1</h1>
<h2>This is heading 2</h2>
<h3>This is heading 3</h3>
<h4>This is heading 4</h4>
<h5>This is heading 5</h5>
<h6>This is heading 6</h6>
</body>

</html>

This will produce the following result −

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This is heading 1
This is heading 2
This is heading 3

This is heading 4

This is heading 5

This is heading 6

Paragraph Tag
The <p> tag offers a way to structure your text into different paragraphs. Each paragraph of text
should go in between an opening <p> and a closing </p> tag as shown below in the example −

Example
 Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
<title>Paragraph Example</title>
</head>

<body>
<p>Here is a first paragraph of text.</p>
<p>Here is a second paragraph of text.</p>
<p>Here is a third paragraph of text.</p>
</body>

</html>

This will produce the following result −

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Here is a first paragraph of text.

Here is a second paragraph of text.

Here is a third paragraph of text.

Line Break Tag


Whenever you use the <br /> element, anything following it starts from the next line. This tag is
an example of an empty element, where you do not need opening and closing tags, as there is
nothing to go in between them.

The <br /> tag has a space between the characters br and the forward slash. If you omit this
space, older browsers will have trouble rendering the line break, while if you miss the forward
slash character and just use <br> it is not valid in XHTML.

Example
 Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
<title>Line Break Example</title>
</head>

<body>
<p>Hello<br />
You delivered your assignment ontime.<br />
Thanks<br />
Mahnaz</p>
</body>

</html>

This will produce the following result −

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Hello
You delivered your assignment on time.
Thanks
Mahnaz

Centering Content
You can use <center> tag to put any content in the center of the page or any table cell.

Example
 Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
<title>Centring Content Example</title>
</head>

<body>
<p>This text is not in the center.</p>

<center>
<p>This text is in the center.</p>
</center>
</body>

</html>

This will produce following result −

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This text is not in the center.

This text is in the center.

Horizontal Lines
Horizontal lines are used to visually break-up sections of a document. The <hr> tag creates a
line from the current position in the document to the right margin and breaks the line
accordingly.

For example, you may want to give a line between two paragraphs as in the given example
below −

Example
 Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
<title>Horizontal Line Example</title>
</head>

<body>
<p>This is paragraph one and should be on top</p>
<hr />
<p>This is paragraph two and should be at bottom</p>
</body>

</html>

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This is paragraph one and should be on top

This is paragraph two and should be at bottom

Again <hr /> tag is an example of the empty element, where you do not need opening and
closing tags, as there is nothing to go in between them.

The <hr /> element has a space between the characters hr and the forward slash. If you omit
this space, older browsers will have trouble rendering the horizontal line, while if you miss the
forward slash character and just use <hr> it is not valid in XHTML

Preserve Formatting
Sometimes, you want your text to follow the exact format of how it is written in the HTML
document. In these cases, you can use the preformatted tag <pre>.

Any text between the opening <pre> tag and the closing </pre> tag will preserve the
formatting of the source document.

Example
 Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
<title>Preserve Formatting Example</title>
</head>

<body>
<pre>
function testFunction( strText ){
alert (strText)
}
</pre>
</body>

</html>

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This will produce the following result −

function testFunction( strText ){


alert (strText)
}

Try using the same code without keeping it inside <pre>...</pre> tags

Nonbreaking Spaces
Suppose you want to use the phrase "12 Angry Men." Here, you would not want a browser to
split the "12, Angry" and "Men" across two lines −

An example of this technique appears in the movie "12 Angry Men."

In cases, where you do not want the client browser to break text, you should use a nonbreaking
space entity &nbsp; instead of a normal space. For example, when coding the "12 Angry Men"
in a paragraph, you should use something similar to the following code −

Example
 Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
<title>Nonbreaking Spaces Example</title>
</head>

<body>
<p>An example of this technique appears in the movie "12&nbsp;Angry&nbsp;Men
</body>

</html>

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An example of this technique appears in the movie "12 Angry Men."

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