Block formatting elements are used for the formatting of whole blocks of text within a HTML document, rather than single characters. They should all (if present) be within the body of the document. (I.e. within the <BODY> ... </BODY> elements)

The essential block formatting elements are :

<ADDRESS> - Format an address section
<BASEFONT ...> - Specifying the 'default' font size for the document.
<BLOCKQUOTE> - To quote text from another source.
<BR> - Force a line break.
<CENTER>- Centering text on the page.
<COMMENT> - To enclose text as a comment.
<DFN> - Defining Instance.
<DIV> - Allow centering, or left/right justification of text.
<FONT ...>- Setting/changing the font size, colour and type.
<HR> - Renders a sizeable hard line on the page.
<Hx> - Format six levels of heading.
<LISTING> - Text formatting.
<MARQUEE> - Highlighted scrolling text.
<MULTICOL> - Create multi-column layouts.
<NOBR>- Specifying that words arenÆt to be broken.
<P> - Specify what text constitutes a paragraph and its alignment.
<PLAINTEXT> - For text formatting.
<PRE> - Use text already formatted.
<SPACER> - Introduce hard white space blocks.
<SPAN> - Used to apply presentation markup.
<WBR>- Specifying that a word is to be broken if necessary.
<XMP> - Text formatting.

<ADDRESS>