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Basic Rules of the HTML Tag

Any basic HTML tag will follow a couple of simple rules.

1) All html tags will be enclosed in brackets < >
2) With few exceptions, there will be an opening and closing html tag.<> </>
3) The html tag is not case sensitive. <html> is the same as <HTML>
4) Some attributes are required as in the lang="" in the html tag
5) Some html tags are required.

<html lang="en">
<head></head>
<body></body>
</html>

No Closing Tag

1) The image tag <img>
2) The meta tag <meta>
3) The link tag <link>
4) The br tag <br>
5) The hr tag <hr>

There are other exceptions. Check out our resources for more information.

Our HTML Tag Resources

12 Basic HTML Tags Tutorial

A basic online tutorial for beginners. Covers the most commonly used HTML tags.

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