HTML Elements (JNNC Technologies)

HTML documents are text files and this is defined by HTML elements.

Elements

Start tag	Element content	End tag
<p>	This is a paragraph	</p>
<a href=”index.html”>	This is a link	</a>
<br>	Inserts a single line break.
<strong>	Bold Text	</strong>

HTML 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 and
The start tag is often called the opening tag. The end tag is often called the closing tag.
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; means the same as

HTML Document Example

Example:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of Page</title>
</head>
<body>

<h2>This is page heading.</h2>
<p>This is first <strong>paragraph text</strong>.</p>

</body>
</html>Run

Explanation:

The <!DOCTYPE html> declaration specifying document is using HTML 5
The <html> element is main initial element of an HTML document
The content between <head> and </head> are the meta information about an HTML document
The <title> element used to specifies a title for an HTML document
The content between <body> and </body> tag is the visible page content
The <h1> element is an large heading of webpage
The element is an paragraph text
The purpose of the tag is to define an HTML element that should be displayed as bold.