HTML is used to structure web pages by enclosing text with opening and closing code tags. Tags must be properly structured and related to other tags. Some tags stand alone, while others work in tandem as opening and closing tags. The material inside tags is specified by exact material or class of element. URLs and words for hyperlinks are inserted between opening and closing tags with specific elements required for proper coding.
HTML is the standard abbreviation for Hyper Text Markup Language, a means of structuring documents used to create web pages. The structure is created by enclosing each bit of text on the page with an opening and closing HTML code tag that together define what should appear at that point in the document. Self-contained HTML code tags are also used to perform other functions. For material to appear as intended, each HTML code tag must be properly structured and placed in an appropriate relationship to other code tags and to the content.
There are several key steps in forming an HTML code tag. First, a tag must begin with the symbol , which is sometimes called a “greater-than sign” and sometimes called a “right angle bracket.” This is the case whether the HTML code tag is an opening tag, a closing tag, or a standalone tag.
In some cases, an HTML code tag stands alone with its content. This is the case, for example, with the tag, which creates a line break. An associated closing tag is not required for this function. When code tags work in tandem as an opening and closing tag, there’s one more requirement. In this case, the left parenthesis of the closing tag must be followed by the slash sign /. For example, to make the material appear bold, the HTML code tag content is the letter b, so the HTML rendering would look like this:
the words I want to be bold
The bracketed material of an HTML code tag is always specified, sometimes by the exact material, such as b for bold, and sometimes by the class of the element to be included. For example, to create a hyperlink, you need to specify a URL for a web page, any web page you like, inside the opening HTML code tag, while the words you want the reader to see are inserted between the ‘opening and closing tag like this:
words that the reader sees
To make this work, replace the URL with the URL you want the link to go to, and replace “words the reader sees” with the words you want to rank for. Note that in addition to the letter a, which appears in the closing tag, the opening tag has a space, the href designation, an equal sign, and opening and closing quotation marks around the URL. All of these elements are required for proper HTML code coding to work.
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