- Angle brackets like <html>
- come in pairs like start tag<b> and end tag</b>
- Start and end tags are also called opening tags and closing tags
- HTML documents are also called web pages
start tag
<html>
<body>
<h1>My First h1 Heading</h1>
<p>My first paragraph.</p>
</body>
</html>
<body>
<h1>My First h1 Heading</h1>
<p>My first paragraph.</p>
</body>
</html>
end tag
- text between <html> and </html> describes the web page
- text between <body> and </body> is the visible page content
- text between <h1> and </h1> is displayed as a heading
- text between <p> and </p> is displayed as a paragraph
