HTML is short for HyperText Markup Language. That name is quite misleading however, because HTML is not a language, but a syntax.
This syntax, which is used to create all web pages, is made up of tags. A tag is nothing more than words surrounded by the < and > characters.
For example, using the tag <BR> creates a single line break, similar to pressing enter in a word processor.
Some tags, like the one above, stand alone, while others require an opening and closing tag.
For example: <center>Your Text Here</center> would look like this:
Your Text Here
Did you notice that the second tag contained the forward slash? What could that mean?
Quite simply, the <center> tag tells where you want to begin centering, while the </center> tells where to stop. This is called a "container tag."
