HTML Tags

HTML Basics - HTML Tags

Basically a computer sees an "A" as simply an "A" - whether it is bold, italic, big or small. To tell the browser that an "A" should be bold we need to put a markup in front of the "A". Such a markcup is called a Tag.

All HTML tags are enclosed in < and > (angle brackets).

Example: The HTML code for displaying text in bold is shown below:

This is an example of <b> bold </b> text.

a piece of text as it appears on the screem.

This is an example of bold text.

As it is shown, the start tag <b> indicates that whatever followss should be written in bold. The corresponding end tag </b> indicates that the browser should stop writing text in bold.