HTML Tags
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HTML Tags
HTML tags are common naming for HTML markup tags.- HTML tags are keywords for HTML language and define inside of angle brackets like <html>
- Generally HTML tags are come in pairs like <p> and </p>
- The first tag of a pair called start tag or opening tag, the second tag called end tag or closing tag.
- The end tag written same as start tag including forward slash before the tag name.
<starttag>content</endtag>
HTML Elements
HTML Elements and HTML tags are often used to define same things.Even though HTML Element is anything between opening tag and closing tag, containing the tags.
HTML Element:
<p>a paragraph</p>
Code Sample
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <body> <h1>HTML Heading tag</h1> <p>HTML paragraph tag</p> <div>HTML division tag</div> </body> </html>
Example explained:
- <!DOCTYPE html> DOCTYPE defines the document type.
- Between the start tag <html> and end tag </html> describe the web page.
- Between the start tag <body> and end tag </body> text is visible contents of the web page.
- Between the start tag <h1> and end tag </h1> text is a heading.
- Between the start tag <p> and end tag </p> text is a paragraph.
- Between the start tag <div> and end tag </div> define a division.
The <!DOCTYPE> Declaration
<!DOCTYPE> Declaration is a most important thing when developing a web site because there are various HTML types and versions to provide 100% correct web page browser need to identify which HTML version and type used in web page.
Common Declarations
HTML5
<!DOCTYPE html>
HTML 4.01
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
XHTML 1.0
