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What is HTML?

• They are always surrounded by the two characters < and > and these characters are called angle brackets
• HTML tags come in pairs like <b> and </b>, the first tag is called a start tag and the second tag is the end tag. End tags should always be closed in the reverse order of the start tags, but a lesson for another time (an example is below in #3)
• The text between the start and end tags is the element content
• HTML tags are not case sensitive, meaning <b> means the same as <B>. I always use lowercase tags. Why? If you want to prepare yourself for the next generations of HTML you should start using lowercase tags. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommends lowercase tags in their HTML 4 recommendation, and XHTML (the next generation HTML) demands lowercase tags.

• Some HTML tags only contain the tag by itself, where others can also contain several attributes
• Attributes are always added to the start tag of an HTML element
• Attributes are separated from the tag with a single space
• Attributes always contain a value, also referred to as a parameter, and the value is separated from the attribute by an equal sign = with no spaces
• Attribute values should always be enclosed in double quotes " ", it's just a good habit to get into. Quotes may not be always required, but if you use them all the time, you won't have to guess when you should or shouldn't use them.