HTML rules

There are a few rules that go with using html tags:

• They are easily differentiated from the text on the page because they are enclosed by angle brackets (less than and greater than symbols) e.g.
  
  
  
• Most tags come in pairs and contain the text that they affect within them e.g. the html tag is the code for italic, so Hello will italicise the word Hello
  
  
• The pair of html tags are arranged into opening and closing tags, e.g. opening tag and closing tag, which is shown by a forward slash / and shows the html code where the tag finishes
  
  
• When using more than one tag at a time on a section of text, there must be a first open, last closed rule i.e. a tag located inside another tag must be opened and closed inside the other tag, in exactly the same way as brackets are used, e.g. {[( )]}   An illustration of this rule is shown when selected text is bolded , italicised and underlined , in that order, and the tags would be arranged like this;  SampleText and would appear on the web page like this; SampleText. Please note that underlining is not always a good idea on the internet, as it can be confused with a link.
  
  
• Exceptions to the 'pair' and 'open/close' rule are tags which stand on their own, such as
  a single line break, or 

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  a line across the page