Tags are formatting commands that tell a web browser, such as Netscape, how to format the page. An HTML document is full of tags. This can make the document look ominous and difficult to read, but once you get used to them, tags are pretty simple. In fact, if you are at all familiar with the reveal codes screen in WordPerfect, you probably know more about tags than you thought. HTML has tags for making text bigger and small, or making it bold or italics.
Some tags create numbered and bullet lists.
Other tags mark the end of a paragraph, create line breaks, and divider lines. Tags are used to make a link to another document, or to create a table. There are even tags that identify a document as being an HTML document, and which parts of the document the browser should display. Some are easy to use, while others are a bit more complicated. In this introduction, we will work more with the simple tags.