• HTML pages are text documents.


• HTML uses tags (characters that sit inside angled brackets) to give the information they surround special meaning.


• Tags are often referred to as elements


• Tags usually come in pairs. The opening tag denotes the start of a piece of content; the closing tag denotes the end.


• Opening tags can carry attributes, which tell us more about the content of that element.


• Attributes require a name and a value.


• To learn HTML you need to know what tags are available for you to use, what they do, and where they can go.