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Keshav Jindal
Keshav Jindal

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Understanding HTML tags.

1. What are tags?
Tags are the basic building blocks of HTML. HTML is a group different kind of tags having their own unique properties. Every tag contains opening and closing tag. Tags are also opened and closed in a specific order. The most recent tag should be closed first than the outer one.
For example:
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There are many number of tags, a few of are:

  • Heading tag.

  • Paragraph tag.

  • Image tag and many more.
    We will understand each tag in detail in next module.
    2. Let's see few examples for better understanding:

Example-1;

<h1>My HTML webpage content.</h1>
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OUTPUT:

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Example-2;

<h2>My Blog post</h2>
<img src="https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/logos/resized_logo_UQww2soKuUsjaOGNB38o.png" />
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OUTPUT:

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