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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:

• first li item
• second li item
• let me think... third item. Each item can be as long as wanted or needed and be many lines long and include other tags etc.
• fourth item

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:

Table:

(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.