HTML Describes the Structure of Web Pages

The HTML code (Hyper Text Mark-up Language) is made up of characters

Examples P- is a character that stands for Paragraph in HTML

This Character P lives inside angled brackets in this case <character p lives h

Because this character lives in this angled bracket they are called HTML elements. Therefore <p> is a paragraph element.

Elements are usually made up of two tags: an opening tag and a closing tag.  (The closing tag has an extra forward slash in it.)

<p>……………….! Opening tag

</p>……………..! Closing tag

Tags act like containers. They tell you something about the information that lies between their opening and closing tags.