Every web page is an HTML document. Every HTML document is comprised of a serious of TAGS, which control the formatting, and placement of the content within the web page. Content can include text, images and other various media elements.

All HTML tags occur within a pair of angle brackets:

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Tags are generally used in one of two ways:
· As a pair to format a range of text or an element
· Alone as a way to add an item to the page, such as an image, line-break or rule.

Tags are used in pairs to control all of the text or content that is placed between them. When used in pairs, there is an open tag and a closing tag.

The close tag is the same as the open tag except there is a forward slash placed before the tag name.

Here is an example.

To bold text, we place the text between an open stong tag and a close strong tag.