H tags are for headings. This heading uses the H1 tag: H1 creates VERY large headings.

This heading uses the H3 tag: it creates a smaller heading. In fact, the H tags go from H1 down to H6.

H tags are odd: the bigger the number, the smaller the heading text. This is H5.

The H tags have an "ALIGN" option so you can center headings...

...or align them with the right margin.

The P tag is used for paragraphs. In HTML, a paragraph is presented in "block" style: no indentation, with a blank line following the end of the paragraph. You can create indented, book-style paragraphs, but it is more difficult and tends to be not worth the effort; especially since you end up using all sorts of special formatting commands that destroy the "semantic" clue that the P tag provides (such clues, for example, are used by indexing programs, and software that reads text for sight-impaired users). The paragraph ends with a /P tag.

This is a second paragraph. Note the blank line displayed between this paragraph and the paragraph above.

Like the H tag, the P tag can use an ALIGN option for centering or right alignment.

If you need to break a line
like this, the BR tag will give you a line break within a paragraph or heading.

The BR tag is
Also very good
For poetry and
Similar content.

Finally, there is the matter of style; specifically bold text and italic text. The B tag creates bold and the I tag creates italic. You can even combine them.

In our next lesson, we'll discuss links, images, lists, and tables.