All HTML tags are enclosed in < > (the less than and greater than symbols); this way the browser knows which parts of the document to interpret. Also most tags consist of a START and END tag. An end tag will always have a backslash ( / ) before the word. Too complicating? It's easier when you see it!
Look at these tags below.

< HTML>
< HEAD>
< TITLE> My Page About Cats and Dogs!< /TITLE>
</HEAD>
< BODY BACKGROUND="flower.jpg" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#8C1616" VLINK="#00009B">
</BODY>
</HTML>

What does it mean? All web documents begin with < HTML> and end with </HTML>. This way the web browser knows when the HTML document begins, and when it ends. The < HEAD> and </HEAD> tags hold information about your page, such as the official title of your web page. The title is placed between the < TITLE> and </TITLE> tags. If you were to copy the codes shown above and open it up in your web browser, you would see a blank page. The official title of your page written between the title tags will not show on your page, but will be visible in your browser window and is used by web browsers as a title when someone bookmarks your page. The BODY tags will contain the entire document within them. It is also where you will state which color you would like the background, the text and the links; if you are using an image as a background, you will write that here as well. In part two, we will show you some more basic html tags.
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