Most commonly used or seen elements
Start with these 24 — these are elements you will use in most of your web pages, or that you'll find in a majority of web pages.
- The root element
html
- Document metadata
headtitlelinkmeta
- Sections
bodynavh1,h2headerfooter
- Grouping content
pullimaindiv
- Text-level semantics
aspanbr
- Embedded content
img
- Forms
formlabelinput
- Scripting
script
How to find out more about them? Two places that I would start are:
- HTML Living Standard (WHATWG). For example:
- MDN web docs, and specifically MDN - HTML elements reference. For example: