HTML Basics

Quick Check

  1. What symbol is used to start an HTML tag? What symbol is used to end an HTML tag?

  2. What four tags should you use in all HTML documents? 

  3. How do you close an HTML block tag? How do you close an empty tag? 

  4. What is a tag? What is an attribute? 

  5. What are document structure tags?

  6. What tags should be present in all web pages? What are they used for? 

  7. Give some examples of tags that have attributes. What are the attributes? 

  8. What happens to text that spans multiple lines in the HTML source file? 

  9. What do you think the < and > symbols do? What other symbols do you think are often specified this way in HTML?