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Tag: <tag attribute="value" ...>optional content<tag>

some emphasized or strongly emphasized text in a p paragraph tag. Notice that whitespace (blanks and newlines) is not preserved. Text flows. All the structuring of the document is specified by the tags.

Here's another paragraph.


Headings: should be used for sectioning the document, e.g. title, chapters, sections etc. not for specifying font size.

Heading h1

Heading h2

Heading h3

Heading h4

Heading h5
Heading h6

Lists:

ul Unordered list:

ol Ordered list:

  1. first li item
  2. second li item
  3. third item
  4. fourth item. by default it's numbered, but can be ABC or abc or I II III etc

dl Definition list:

dt term
dd definition
aardvark
lovable furry critter. watch out for the claws
wombat
another obscure animal you'll find in the zoo

Image: trees
Table:
Simple basic caption
Quarter 1 Quarter 2 Quarter 3 Quarter 4
Income $14,000 $12,000 $19,000 $9,000
Expenses $4,000 $2,000 $900 $2,000
(HTML has no concept of numbers, everything is just formatted text.)
Links:
Let's go to my home page
Let's go to UMUC AD
Or to another document at this web site in this same folder.