In HTML, tags are used to define elements within a webpage, such as paragraphs, headings, links, images, etc.
An opening tag initiates the start of an element. It is composed of the element name wrapped in opening and closing angle brackets. For example, to start a paragraph, you would use the opening paragraph tag
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A closing tag signifies the end of an element. It is similar to the opening tag but includes a forward slash (/) before the element name. For example, to end a paragraph, you would use the closing paragraph tag
.Everything that comes between an opening tag and a closing tag represents the content of that element. For instance,
This is a paragraph.
Here, “This is a paragraph.” is the content enclosed within the paragraph tags.