HTML Headings and Paragraphs: H1 to H6 and the P Tag (Video)

Headings and paragraphs make up most of the text on any web page. These two videos explain heading tags from H1 to H6 and the paragraph tag.

Headings: H1 to H6

HTML has six heading levels:

<h1>Main title of the page</h1>
<h2>A main section</h2>
<h3>A sub-section</h3>

• Use one H1 per page for the main topic.
• Use H2 for main sections and H3 for points inside them. H4 to H6 are rarely needed.
• Do not skip levels just to get a smaller font; change the size with CSS instead.
• Headings help readers skim, help screen readers navigate and help search engines understand the page.

Paragraphs

<p>This is a paragraph. Browsers add space above and below it.</p>

• Each block of text goes in its own <p> tag.
• Browsers ignore extra spaces and line breaks in your code; use separate paragraphs or <br> for a line break.
• Keep paragraphs short on the web: two to four sentences.

Try it

Paste plain text into our text to HTML converter to see it wrapped in paragraph tags, and check the length of your content with the word counter.

Watch: HTML paragraphs

• HTML Paragraph || How to Create a Paragraph in HTML || Paragraph Tag4:03HTML Paragraph || How to Create a Paragraph in HTML || Paragraph Tag