What are HTML Tags?
Handy Tip: The best way to learn how to write html is to look at the source code behind every webpage. To look at the source code choose “View” from the top browser tool bar and click “Source”. This then shows the code in Notepad and you can even save it to play around with the html code and see what each line does.
HTML tags are specifically formatted text that creates ‘markers’ for web browser to read and interpret. These ‘markers’ tell the web browser what and how to display things on the web page. Tags are placed in and around text and images (text and images are some of the ‘things’) that your want to have appear in your web pages. HTML has a whole bunch of tags (just like the alphabet has a whole bunch of letters) that the web designer can use to build web pages. As mentioned above, tags have a specific structure so that when the browser is reading an HTML page, it knows the tags from the normal text. Tags are typically words or abbreviations of words placed between angled brackets. So for example: to make text bold, HTML has the ‘bold’ tag that looks like this: This text will be bolded Another commonly used tag is the paragraph tag:
This is a paragraph of text.
