HTML and CSS Reference
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Tags
You can see that there are lots of pieces of text with “<” and “>” surrounding them. These
are used to declare something as a tag. For example, If you place “<html>” on either side of
some text, you are using code to tell your computer what it is.
You probably want to know more about what all of those tags actually do. Here is a brief list
of explanations for some of the HTML tags that you just entered:
<head>
This is the part of coding where you can put the title of a webpage, as well as thing like the
meta tags, or other types of coding.
<body>
Oddly enough, this is the body of your content. Just about everything else goes here, and
much of the focus on these lessons will also be placed here.
This type of markup is called semantic markup, since the bits of coding actually have names
that tend to denote their purposes.
To get an idea of the different uses that tags can have in HTML5, take a look at some differ-
ent websites. Many of them feature similar items on the pages. This includes areas of writ-
ing, titles (headers), footers, various boxes, and often sidebars on the left or right. However,
many of these things are not actually necessary for the main content that viewers want to
see. They do make it much easier to navigate around the website, and to utilize other valu-
able functions.
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