On the last page you typed this into a text editor and showed it in a browser:
<h1>Hello</h1>
<p>Hello everyone this is my first Web page. Above is a title and this is a paragraph of text.</p>
<p>This is another paragraph.</p>
Tags
The key thing to learn here is what an HTML tag is. All those things with a less than (<) and a greater than (>) symbols are tags.
Elements
Most tags come in pairs. The first pair go around the first word on the page and tell the Web browser that it should be displayed as a heading. These two H1 tags open the heading and close it. The closing tag has a / in it.
The two tags with the text inside them make up an element. An H1 element.
The next set of tags are either side of the first paragraph. P tags mark a paragraph. Again there is an opening tag (<p>) and a closing tag (</p>). That's a P element.
Line breaks
Both P and H1 tags cause the browser to start a new line (a new block of stuff to display) and put some space between it and what comes before and after.
What elements look like in browsers
There are many more tags and on the next pages you will try some. Before you do though be aware that the way the page is displayed in each Web browser will be slightly different. Each browser has its own default display for each tag. Later you will learn to use CSS to change this default behaviour. At the moment you are creating a structure for your page and not formatting it (the browser does that).
Self closing tags
Just to add confusion a few elements only have the opening tag with no content or closing tag. Instead of a closing tag you should put a forward slash at the end of the opening tag. You will see this in action very soon.
