Basic BODY Tags.
As soon as you defined the minimum html document tags you will need to add some content to your website. In order to do so you will need to learn some basic tags to control text alignment, spaces, to displays images and do many other useful things.

The following table reviews the features of the tags

Opening Tag Closing Tag Description
<P> </P> Indicates a new paragraph and instructs the browser to add a blank line. Takes optional alignment parameters of LEFT, RIGHT or CENTER to align the paragraph.
<BR> none Forces a line break in the text. This tag takes an optional parameter to specify how text should wrap around images however we will discuss this on Day Two.
<HR> none This tag creates a horizontal line across the screen. By default the line will span the entire width of the document according to the specifications of BLOCKQUOTE and LIST tags. However, you can modify the look of the line by using any of the following attributes. ALIGN may equal LEFT, RIGHT, or CENTER. SIZE may equal some pixel value. WIDTH may equal some pixel value or some percentage of the document width. NOSHADE will turn off the beveling look. COLOR may equal some color hexvalue.


Here is the example of basic text formatting using HTML tags 
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Hello World</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
This is a very simple web page.  Notice that
the browser does not pay  attention    too     spaces that
we
add to our document unless you specify what type of
spacing                                you want
<P>
Like when you use a paragraph tag or a <BR>
break line tag
<P>
And here is a hard rule
<P>
<HR ALIGN = "CENTER" SIZE = "10" WIDTH = "50%" COLOR = "AA0000" NOSHADE>
</BODY>
</HTML>
That's how this code will be displayed in Netscape Navigator.