HTML tags are used to mark-up HTML elements.
HTML tags two characters < and > .
The characters are called angle brackets .
HTML tags normally come in pairs like <b> and </b>.
The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag.
<html>
<head>
<title>this is text</title>
</head>
<body>this is my first text.</body>
</html>
The HTML element starts with a start tag: <b>
The HTML element ends with an end tag: </b>
<body>This is my first homepage<b>This is bold text</b></body>