There are a few tags that do not follow the mold above. In a way, they still have the 3 parts (opening/closing and content). These tags however do not require a formal but rather a modified version. The reason being that these tags do not really require any content. Rather some of them just need a source URL and this is enough information for the web browser to display the tag properly (image tags). Let's take a look at a line break tag.

HTML Code:

To tell the browser we want to place a line break (carriage return) onto the site, it is not necessary to type
linebreak
. If every line break tag needed all three components as other do, life would become redundant real quick. Instead the better solution was to combine the opening and closing tags into a single format. Other tags have also been modified such as the image tag and input tag.

HTML Code:

As you can see from the above image tag, your browser is completely capable of interpreting this tag so long as we tell the browser where the image is located using the src attribute. More on attributes in the next lesson.

* A tag consists of an opening tag and a closing tag .
* Few HTML tags do not require a closing tag.
* Modify tags with attributes to customize your webpages!
* Tags depreciate as new web technologies evolve.

Now is a good time to start thinking about what type of website you may want to make. It is always easier to make content for a topic or to achieve a goal.