What is an HTML Tag?

HTML is used to define the structure and appearance of documents, which can be delivered quickly and easily to a user over a network. HTML does provide many different ways to define the appearance of the documents. Using HTML tags one could indicate the semantics of the document content.

The general syntax of an HTML tag:

<tag name> ..content ... </end tag>
   list of attributes = value types (string, color, ...)
   <subordinate tag name> ..content ... </end tag>
      list of attributes = value types (string, color, ...)

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HTML Tag List
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