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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.

Our HTML Tag Resources

12 Basic HTML Tags Tutorial

A basic online tutorial for beginners. Covers the most commonly used HTML tags.

 

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