Research – Screen Based Communication 2

Tags:
Elements that describe content use a tag pair to mark the beginning and end of the element.
<tag>…</tag>

Inbetween sits the information. Having a start and an end lets a browser know where to start and finish.

Single Tags:
Elements that insert something into the page are called empty elements because they enclose no content.
<tag />

Images and line breaks insert single tags. To make this readable for older broswers, a space needs to be inserted inbetween the tag and line break. This allows older browsers to ignore the closing slash. Newer browsers that know about XHTML will ignore the space and interpret the tag exactly.