HTML tags, Attributes and Elements (for beginners)
HTML tags;
these are the keywords (tag names) surrounded by angle brackets
<tagname>content</tagname>
from the codes above the tag is divided into two categories which are
Attributes;
tags can also have attributes, which are extral bits of information.
attributes appear inside the opening tag and their values sit inside quotation marks. they look something like <tag attribute="value">Margarine</tag>
elements;
elements are the bits that make up web pages for example
<body>mchuchuri ni mtundu sana jamani. </body>
everything that is between (and includes) <body>and</body> tag is body element,
another example is ;
<title> and <title/> are the tags <title> chully </title> is a title.
THE ESSENTIAL OF HTML TAGS
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these are the keywords (tag names) surrounded by angle brackets
<tagname>content</tagname>
from the codes above the tag is divided into two categories which are
- open tag that start at the beginning <tagname>
- closed tag. this is the ending tag which close the tags </tagname>
also HTML tags normally come in pairs like
- <p>
- </p>
the first tag in a pair is start tag; the second one is the end tag.
NB, the tag is written like the start tag, but with a slash (/) before the tag name.
Attributes;
tags can also have attributes, which are extral bits of information.
attributes appear inside the opening tag and their values sit inside quotation marks. they look something like <tag attribute="value">Margarine</tag>
elements;
elements are the bits that make up web pages for example
<body>mchuchuri ni mtundu sana jamani. </body>
everything that is between (and includes) <body>and</body> tag is body element,
another example is ;
<title> and <title/> are the tags <title> chully </title> is a title.
THE ESSENTIAL OF HTML TAGS
- <!DOCTYPES> this tag defines the documents type and HTML version.
- <html> this tag encloses the complete HTML document and mainly comprises of document header which is represented by <head>...</head> and document body which represented by <body>...</body> tags.
- <head> this tag represents the document's header which can keep other HTML tags like <title>, <links> and others.
- <title> the <title> tag is used inside the <head> tag to mention the documents title.
- <body> this tag represents the document's body which keeps othe rHTML tag like <h1>, <div>, <p> etc.
- <!--...--> this is defines a comment.
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HTML tags, Attributes and Elements (for beginners)
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