Introduction to HTML

How do you write Tags?

HTML documents are simply text documents -- you don't need a special word processor to create them. The tags are simply strings of text surrounded by the less than (<) and greater than (>) symbols. The first thing inside is the name of the corresponding element (P for paragraphs, BLOCKQUOTE for blockquotes, etc.) The end tag, howver, has a forward slash (/) in front of the name, to distinguish it from the start tage. Thus, the start and stop tags for a heading are

• start tag -- <H1>
• end tag -- </H1>
• complete element -- <H1> This is the heading text </H1>

Case Sensitivity

THe tag names are case insensitive. Thus you can type <H1> or <h1>, <blockquote> or <BLOckquOtE> , and they are equivalent.