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farah hussain
9,218 Pointshow do you do this
You'll need a closing tag with a slash, like this: <html></html> what does this mean?
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
2 Answers
John Steer-Fowler
Courses Plus Student 11,734 PointsHi Farah,
In HTML, we use what we call html 'tags' in our code that define page elements.
Html tags looks like this:
<p>
<head>
<div>
<span>
<h2>
Html requires these tags to be closed so that when the webpage is being rendered, it knows where the element ends.
Closing a tag requires using the same tag, but with a slash in it:
<p></p>
<head></head>
<div></div>
<span></span>
<h2></h2>
The slash helps the web browser know that this is a closing tag and not an opening tag
I hope this helps explain it a little further
Keep up the good work
jaisonbrooks
4,608 PointsLike the comment above, HTML is all about tags, some need to be closed with an ending tag like such: </tag_name> and others can be closed like this: <tag attribute_name="blah" />.
Your basic markup for an HTML page is like such:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>My First Heading</h1>
<p>My first paragraph.</p>
</body>
</html>
Take a look at the information over at this site. it'll help explain html markup and how it works. http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_intro.asp