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# Tags

Tags are the basic building blocks of an HTML document. HTML tags consist of a start tag (`<tag>`) and an end tag (`</tag>`), and the content to which the tag is applied is placed in between.

```html title="Structure of an HTML Tag"
<tag>Content applied by the tag</tag>
```

 

The start tag is represented as `<tagname>` (e.g., `<html>`) with angle brackets, and the end tag is represented as `</tagname>` (e.g., `</html>`) with a **slash** (/) before the tag name.

```html title="Start Tag / End Tag Example"
<html>
 Hello World!
</html>
```

 

An element is the combination of a start tag, content, and an end tag wrapped together.

Elements are the most basic building blocks of a webpage and define the content of the webpage such as text, images, videos, and input fields.

```html title="Text Element Example"
Hello there
```

 

## Practice

Try typing the highlighted parts of the code as you follow along.