HTML tag structure
defining the objects of an web page
HTML tags follow a basic structure of definition, attributes and content:
Definition, as the tag/object itself, e.g.
<h1>for a headingAttributes, describe the tag, e.g.
srcfor the source of an<img>tag<img src="file.jpg" />
Content, which houses additional objects and information
these may include plain text or other "child" tags
Content inside HTML tags
If we were to include content inside an HTML tag, the tag would need an opening and closing component, for example:
As in the first-level heading above
<h1>makes up the opening tag</h1>makes up the closing tag
Nesting
We could even include tags inside tags! Of course, we always do this with the <html> tag:
When we nest a tag, we must close the innermost tag before closing the outer tag (in the above example, we must close h1 before closing body , which we, in turn, close before html)
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