Your First HTML Tag
Learn how tags open and close — like lids on a box.
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Tags are containers
HTML tags exist because browsers need a way to understand what your content means. Without tags, a browser would just see a wall of text with no structure. An HTML tag wraps your content and labels it — 'this is a heading', 'this is a paragraph' — so the browser, search engines like Google, and screen readers all know how to display and interpret it.
Think of it this way: Think of how a news website like BBC or CNN is structured: the main headline is big and bold, sub-headlines are smaller, and body text is regular-sized. HTML tags are how developers tell the browser which text is which — without them, everything would look the same.
Web Standard
Every HTML tag has a meaning.
doesn't just make text big — it tells the browser (and screen readers) 'this is the most important heading on the page.' This is called semantic HTML.
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