Here is a quick run down we put together for those beginning their journey into HTML to quickly outline 10 of the most common tags and some info about them.

1. html

This is the key tag in html it wraps up all the other tags to create an HTML document. HTML actually stands for HyperText Markup Langauge. Tim Berners-Lee as part of his development of the world wide web is widely credited with inventing it (http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/book4/ch02.html). Even XHTML uses the HTML tag!

2. head

This tag defines the section of code where all meta tags go and where any other files required for

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