HTML is written as a series of "tags" enclosed within less-than (<) and greater-than (>) brackets. These tags are instructions, telling a browser how to display the features of your WWW pages.

HTML Tags: How They Work
The start tag begins instructions and/or features, such as italics or bold type,
<tag>
while the end tag stops them. End tags are indicated by a backward slash (/).
</tag>
Together the start and end tags have this format
<tag>***</tag>
Not all instructions or features require an end tag. For example, the paragraph tag is used to indicate the start of a new paragraph and by default, the end of the previous paragraph.
<p>
Troubleshooting
Make sure that . . . You save your file with the .htm or .html extension on the end. Example: index.html The document you are looking at in your browser is the same one that you are working on You end all your quotes (") if you start them You close each tag that requires an ending

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