Here's a table with basic tags broken down by type:
| BASIC | Required: | start/end reading HTML | <html></html> |
| begin/end Head | <head></head> | ||
| begin/end Title | <title></title> | ||
| begin/end Body | <body></body> | ||
| TEXT FORMATTING | Sectioning: | begin/end Paragraph | <p></p> |
| begin/end Division | <div></div> | ||
| begin/end Span | <span></span> | ||
| begin/end Blockquote | <blockquote></blockquote> | ||
| Text Decoration: | begin/end Bold | <strong></strong> (<b></b>) | |
| begin/end Italic | <em></em> (<i></i>) | ||
| begin/end Header One | <h1></h1> | ||
| begin/end Headers | <h2></h2> etc. (h3,h4...) | ||
| begin/end Font Style | <font></font> | ||
| LINKS | -------- |
begin/end Link to URL | <a href="URL"></a> |
| begin/end Link to E-mail | <a href="mailto:EMAIL"></a> |
| TEXT FORMATTING | Sectioning: | begin/end Line Break | <br /> |
| begin/end Hard Rule | <hr /> | ||
| IMAGES | -------- |
begin/end Include Image | <img src="yourpicture.jpg" /> |