HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. It’s a language made up of special commands called tags that tell a browser how to display text and other elements on a webpage. To create a webpage, you need to understand how these tags work and how they are structured in HTML. Tags are like keywords that form the structure of an HTML page. They are the backbone of any HTML document. Every HTML file is built using these tags. Paired Tags: These tags come in pairs — an opening tag and a closing tag. For example, opens a paragraph, and closes it. The closing tag is just like the opening tag but has a forward slash (/) before the keyword. Unpaired Tags: Also known as single or stand-alone tags, these tags don’t need a closing tag. For example, adds a line break without needing an end tag. Structural Tags: These tags help build the main structure of a webpage. They include: