Tags are the HTML code you place in a document at various points, usually surrounding sections of text, to define how the viewing program (usually a Web browser) should format and display your document. Tags that enclose sections of text are paired into "opening" and "closing" tags; closing tags have a forward slash, "/" before them.

Example of opening and closing tags (italics):

<I>italics</I>

Example of a stand alone tag (line break,
which logically enough, does not enclose a section of text):

... line break <BR> which logically ...

For more details, see the Web Communications HTML Guide. [an error occurred while processing this directive]