Now, Let's Look At The Tags For A Minute
A Tag is a coded instruction written between a < Less Than sign and a > Greater Than sign. The Tags do not print to the screen when the program runs. Some Tags tell the browser what to do with the information enclosed
between the Tags. or following the Tag. (I almost forgot, a Browser is any program that shows this page on your computer screen. Such as Netscape or Internet Explorer or AOL's program and many others.)
For instance the <HTML> Tag at the start of an HTML program tells
the browser that the following program is written in Hyper Text
Markup Language and the </HTML> at the end of the program
tells the browser that the HTML program is finished.
Other Tags, such as <BR> (Line Break), <HR>
(Horizontal Rule) and <P> (Paragraph) are specific instructions for that
location and do not need a closing tag </> .
As a for instance, the <BR> Tag tells the browser to go to the next line, where the
<P> Tag tells it to go to the next line. then skip a line. The <HR> Tag tells the browzer to insert a horizontal line.
The <A HREF> tag tells the program to print what is between it and the </A> tag, then do what it's instruction are when it is clicked on. The "Return To The Top" link below is a good example. In the program it would read
<A HREF="#top">Return To The Top </A>.
The #top tells it to move to a tag that says <A NAME="top"> and of course that tag is at the top of the program.
Return To The Top
Now it's time for some of the extras that add a little spice to your web page.
