An HTML document is one that has been divided into its logical parts (i.e. headers, paragraphs, lists, images, quotes and so on) and those parts have been ‘marked up’ with short labels. The labels are called tags. The combination of tags and the text within those tags is called an HTML ‘element’.
Most structural ‘elements’ of an HTML document are enclosed within two tags – an opening tag and a closing tag. It is a good idea to think of elements as containers, e.g. the
tells that browser that this is the start of a paragraph and
tells the browser that this is the end of the paragraph; the text is contained within the start and end tags.…
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Working with non-profits, charities, voluntary and public sector organisations and social enterprises for over 20 years. Jim set up one of the worlds first website accessibility web agencies in the mid 1990s.