HTML Elements
HTML documents are text files made up of HTML elements.
HTML elements are defined using HTML tags.
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
<b> and </b>.
- 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,
<b> means the same as <B>.
HTML Elements
The previous example is shown on the right.
The following is an HTML element:
<b>Text is bold</b>
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~/public_html/Demo.html
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<html>
<head>
<title>Title of page</title>
</head>
<body>
My first homepage!
<b>Text is bold</b>
</body>
</html>
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The HTML element starts with a start tag: <b>.
The content of the HTML element is: This text is bold.
The HTML element ends with an end tag: </b>.
The purpose of the <b> tag is to define an HTML element that should be displayed as bold.
This is also an HTML element:
<body>My first homepage! <b>Text is bold</b></body>
This HTML element starts with the start tag <body>, and ends with the end tag </body>.
The purpose of the <body> tag is to define the HTML element that contains the body of the HTML document.
Demonstration
The following demonstration shows how the HTML script is displayed on the Web.