Tags

A HTML tag is commonly defined as a set of characters constituting a formatted command for a web page. During the early days of the World Wide Web, they were responsible for a majority of the web’s code.

Here are some of the most common HTML tags ordered alphabetically:

Tags

<!DOCTYPE>: Tells the browser that the file is in the HTML format.
<a>: Creates a link to another page or to a location in the current page.
<abbr>: Indicates an acronym or abbreviation of a longer word or phrase.
<acronym>: Creates text that will be displayed when hovered over.
<applet>: Used to embed Java applets in HTML documents but is no longer supported.
<audio>: Represents an interface for adding audio content to the page.
<b>: Used to draw attention to a section of text, usually rendered in boldface.
<blink>: Used to make text flash on and off and is now obsolete, deprecated, and non-standard.
<blockquote>: Represents a section of a document which contains a longer quotation, usually spanning multiple lines.
<br>: Represents a break in text. This tag is used when text needs to span multiple lines rather than being in-line, such as an address.
<button>: Represents a button meant to be clicked by the user.
<canvas>: Creates an element in the page for JavaScript and WebGL to interact with, primarily to create and animate graphics within the page.
<center>: Displays its contents centered horizontally in the containing element. This is now deprecated and CSS should be used instead.
<cite>: Represents a citation to a referenced work such as a book, a song, or a painting.
<code>: Represents source code contained in the text.
<div>: The <div> tag represents a generic division of content. It has no semantic meaning, but will separate its contents from the rest of the document.
<em>: Represents text which is emphasized. Browsers will show the enclosed text in italics, by default."
<embed>: Inserts external content such as a video, image, page, and more.
<form>: Represents an interface to collect and submit user supplied information. This can include open ended text inputs, radio buttons, calendar information, and more.
<h1> - <h6>: Represents a text heading for a section of content, with <h1> being the highest level of heading and <h6> being the lowest.
<head>: Represents a collection of metadata related to the current document. It is an immediate child of the `<html>` element and may include other tags such as <title>, <link>, <style>, and <script>.
<html>: Represents the entire HTML document.
<i>: Used to set off HTML text for some reason, as idiomatic, technical, taxonomical and so on. Typically rendered as italic.
<iframe>: Represents a container used to embed a second web page inside the current one. It can be used for content from the same domain as the parent, or even from a second domain.
<img>: Displays an image on the web page.
<input>: Creates an interactive element, usually used within a form to allow user input. Can be used to make text boxes, color pickers, date pickers, and more.
<kbd>: Emphasizes characters to look like keys on a keyboard.
<li>: Represents a single item in a list of items. It and the other list items must be wrapped in an <ol>, <ul>, or <menu> tag.
<meta>: Represents an interface to provide metadata pertaining to the document. Metadata is data that is used to describe the document that contains it. The <meta> must be placed inside <head> section for the document.
<object>: Represents an external resource such as an image, a nested browsing context, or content to be handled by a browser plugin.
<option>: Represents one option in a dropdown created by the select tag.
<param>: Used to pass parameters to a resource defined in an object tag.
<picture>: Represents multiple possible image sources to be applied to different devices and screen-sizes.
<q>: Used to represent a brief inline quotation.
<script>: Used to insert runnable code into a document, usually JavaScript. Can be used both to include a script within the HTML document, or to load an external script from another source.
<select>: Creates a drop-down list for the user to select from a number of option elements.
<source>: Represents an interface for adding source content to the page.
<span>: Used for grouping related text or elements for styling and scripting.
<strong>: Used to identify text that is very important, or urgent.
<table>: Represents an interface for adding tabular data to the page. Tables are two dimensional, made up of rows and columns, and can contain many types of content.
<u>: Used to display HTML text with a non-textual annotation. The default rendering of this is a solid underline.
<video>: Represents an interface for adding video content to the page.