Basic Rules of the HTML Tag
Any basic HTML tag will follow a couple of simple rules.
- 1) All html tags will be enclosed in brackets < >
- 2) With few exceptions, there will be an opening and closing html tag.<> </>
- 3) The html tag is not case sensitive. <html> is the same as <HTML>
- 4) Some attributes are required as in the lang="" in the html tag
- 5) Some html tags are required.
<html lang="en"> <head></head> <body></body> </html>
No Closing Tag
- 1) The image tag <img>
- 2) The meta tag <meta>
- 3) The link tag <link>
- 4) The br tag <br>
- 5) The hr tag <hr>
There are other exceptions. Check out our resources for more information.
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