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1. Getting to Know HTML: The Language of the Web > What the browser creates...
What the browser creates...
When the browser reads your HTML, it interprets all the tags that surround your text. Tags are just words or characters in angle brackets, like <head>, <p>, <h1>, and so on. The tags tell the browser about the structure and meaning of your text. So rather than just giving the browser a bunch of text, with HTML you can use tags to tell the browser what text is in a heading, what text is a paragraph, what text needs to be emphasized, or even where images need to be placed.
Let’s check out how the browser interprets the tags in the Head First Lounge:
