HTML Elements

html

The root element of an HTML document.

head

Contains machine-readable information (metadata) about the document, like its title and scripts.

title

Defines the document's title that is shown in a browser's title bar or a page's tab.

body

Represents the content of an HTML document.

h1

Section heading level 1.

h2

Section heading level 2.

h3

Section heading level 3.

h4

Section heading level 4.

h5

Section heading level 5.

h6

Section heading level 6.

p

Represents a paragraph.

span

A generic inline container for phrasing content, which does not inherently represent anything.

div

The generic container for flow content.

br

Produces a line break in text (carriage-return).

hr

Represents a thematic break between paragraph-level elements.

strong

Indicates that its contents have strong importance, seriousness, or urgency.

em

Marks text that has stress emphasis.

blockquote

Indicates that the enclosed text is an extended quotation.

code

Displays its contents styled in a fashion intended to indicate that the text is a short fragment of computer code.

ul

Represents an unordered list of items.

ol

Represents an ordered list of items.

li

Represents an item in a list.

a

Creates a hyperlink to web pages, files, email addresses, locations in the same page, or anything else a URL can address.

img

Embeds an image into the document.

video

Embeds a media player which supports video playback into the document.

audio

Used to embed sound content in documents.

form

Represents a document section containing interactive controls for submitting information.

input

Used to create interactive controls for web-based forms in order to accept data from the user.

label

Represents a caption for an item in a user interface.

button

An interactive element activated by a user with a mouse, keyboard, microphone, voice command, or other assistive technology.

textarea

Represents a multi-line plain-text editing control, useful when you want to allow users to enter a sizeable amount of free-form text.

select

Represents a control that provides a menu of options.

table

Represents tabular data — that is, information presented in a two-dimensional table comprised of rows and columns of cells.

tr

Defines a row of cells in a table.

td

Defines a cell of a table that contains data.

th

Defines a cell as header of a group of table cells.