Tags
Published Aug 3, 2021Updated Jul 1, 2022
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In HTML, tags are commonly defined as a set of characters constituting a formatted command for a web page. They are used for making elements for the web page’s markup. During the early days of the World Wide Web, tags were responsible for a majority of the web’s code.
Syntax
<element-name> content </element-name>
<self-closing-element-tag />
A single tag is made of an opening angle bracket <
, followed by the element-name
, followed by the closing angle bracket. While most elements are made of opening and closing tags but some are self-closing. Furthermore, some self-closing elements like <br>
can have a slash at the end like so: <br />
.
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