HTML Tags What are HTML tags? ƒ HTML tags are used to mark-up HTML elements ƒ HTML tags are surrounded by the two characters < and > ƒ The surrounding characters are called angle brackets ƒ HTML tags normally come in pairs like <b> and </b> ƒ The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag ƒ The text between the start and end tags is the element content ƒ HTML tags are not case sensitive, <b> means the same as <B> Logical vs. Physical Tags In HTML there are both logical tags and physical tags. Logical tags are designed to describe (to the browser) the enclosed text's meaning. An example of a logical tag is the <strong> </strong> tag. By placing text in between these tags you are telling the browser that the text has some greater importance. By default all brow...
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