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HTML Tags

HTML is a markup language and makes use of various tags to format the content. These tags are enclosed within angle braces <Tag Name>. Except few tags, most of the tags have their corresponding closing tags. For example, <html> has its closing tag</html> and <body> tag has its closing tag </body> tag etc.

Example:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>This is document title</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is a heading</h1>
<p>Document content goes here.....</p>
</body>
</html>


 Above example of HTML document uses the following tags:

 <!DOCTYPE...> - This tag defines the document type and HTML version.
<html> -
This tag encloses the complete HTML document and mainly comprises of document header which is represented by <head>...</head> and document body which is represented by <body>...</body> tags.
<head> -
This tag represents the document's header which can keep other HTML tags like <title>, <link> etc.
<title> -
The <title> tag is used inside the <head> tag to mention the document title.
<body> -
This tag represents the document's body which keeps other HTML tags like <h1>, <div>, <p> etc.
<h1> - This tag represents the heading.
<p> - This tag represents a paragraph.