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HTML tag definitions

<Doctype HMTL> This tag just tells the browser that your code needs to be interpreted as a web page.  Using this tag is optional. It is best practice for beginners to familiarize themselves with yourself this tag.

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<head> Whatever you put here will be displayed. in the top section of your website.

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<title> Whatever you place here will be used to, help find your website in the search engines.  Essentially this is metadata that is used to identify the content of your page.

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<html> Here is where your code begins 

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<body>  This is the core area of your code, whatever is placed inside the body, will execute. Including element tags. Remember if you place cod

 

<h1> Use this tag to add headings to your page. This tag comes in four sizes. The biggest tag is h4 which will appear small if used. If you want a big heading, then use the h1 tag

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< p> use this tag to add text to your web page. 

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<img scr = "> Use this tag to add images to your web page.

 

<ahref> This tag is used to add links to your web page. A link can be a single word or even an image.

CSS- Cascading style sheets is a term us to reference how the style attribute can be used; to make styling your webpage more coinvent; as opposed to styling your webpage through HTML. 

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<styles>     This tag is used to add various styling elements to your page. Such as colored background or can be used, in conjunction with other tags for formatting purposes. 

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<div>  This tag divides your web page into sections and enables you to add content to a specific section of your webpage. In a similar comparison to how the <body> tag works, whatever code is written between the opening and closing tags of the <div> will be executed.

 

<br> This tag is used to add space between content on your webpage. This is a self-closing tag, so it does not require that, you close it with closing tags. 

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<form> This tag enables you to create a form that can be filled out by visitors to your website. 

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<input>   You can use this tag to enable users to enter data into your form. In addition, this tag can also be used, to create a submit button. 

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Closing tags -    to  properly  run your code;   you must  close your tags, like so </>

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