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One of the defining elements of the
html in which web pages are written. Tags, which are simple text
expressions such as <FONT> or <B>, are used to describe how an element of a
web page should look or behave. When a browser loads the page it reads the
tags and interprets their instructions accordingly. So a piece of html
which reads will display the words "Essential Internet" in bold type, the
Arial typeface (by first preference) and a fetching shade of green.
The
ways in which different browsers interpret tags vary, which is why a page
that looks one way in navigator may be almost unrecognisable in
opera. For this and other reasons, many tags (including the <FONT>tag)
are facing redundancy in the next version of html, which recommends
other, more consistent ways of achieving the same effects. |
