APPENDIX AHTML Tag Index
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) tags designate behaviors or format content in your web pages. HTML tags are embedded tags. Embedded tags do not render in documents. An HTML browser treats a set of reserved words, or keywords, enclosed between less-than and greater-than symbols as tags. That is why you must use the > and < macros, or officially, character entities, to render a greater-than or less-than symbol in a browser.
There are many more macros provided for otherwise reserved characters, such as & for an ampersand or for a space. Macros start by using an ampersand and end with a semicolon. Some browsers will let you enter a macro without the semicolon, but others won’t. As in other environments, slight deviations ...
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