HTML Elements

As we have already seen, HTML is made up of elements such as <p> or <br>. HTML elements are surrdouned by < and > characters, which is why if you want to use these in text you must use code.

The first > signifies the start of a tag and the > shows the end. HTML tags are not case sensative so <BR> is the same as <br>. They usually come in pairs although several are just one.

For example:

<u>This text would be underlined</u>

You have the opening tag <u> which starts the underlining, the content which is the text saying "this text would be underlined" and the closing tag </b>. It would produce:

This text would be underlined

HTML tags should be layered inside each other, for example:

<p><u>This is correct</u></p>

Whereas:

<p><u>This is not correct</p></u>

Sometimes you do not have a closing tag you only have a single tag such as is the case with horizontal lines:

<hr />

Would produce:

There is no need for a closing tag.