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Practice

Tags

In HTML, tags are the basic building blocks used to structure and present content on a web page.

Tags are composed of keywords enclosed in angle brackets (< >), like <tag>.

A tag consists of an opening tag (<tag>) and a closing tag (</tag>), with content that the tag applies to placed between these two tags.

Below is an example of the structure of an HTML tag.

HTML Tag Structure
<tag>Content that the tag applies to</tag>

The opening tag is denoted by <tagname> (e.g., <html>) with only angle brackets, while the closing tag is denoted by </tagname> (e.g., </html>) with a slash (/) before the tag name.

HTML Tag Example
<html>
  Hello World!
</html>

Note: Some tags can also have a slash (/) at the end of the tag name, and these are called self-closing tags. We will learn more about self-closing tags in a later lesson.


Practice​

Follow the emphasized parts of the code and try to write it out yourself.