Tuesday, December 09, 2008

HTML Tags Introduction

Tags are the reserve keywords used in the HTML file. With the help of tags we can set the format of the text and elements used in the file.

Example: Setting the font, size, color, bold, italic, Underline to the text.

In HTML language all of the files are written using tags. Even starting of the html file is done by the html tag and ended with the /html end tag. Tags are the reserved keywords used in the HTML. They are the predefined words called tags.

• HTML tags are used to mark-up HTML elements.

• HTML tags are surrounded by the two characters < and >

• The surrounding characters are called angle brackets.

• HTML tags normally come in pairs like b and /b

• The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag.

• The text between the start and end tags is the element content.

• HTML tags are not case sensitive, b means the same as B