Basic Tags
Case
Remember: HTML tags are not sensitive to case.
Tip: Make HTML tags all lowercase.
HTML is not case-sensitive, which means
that it doesn't matter whether you enter the text of your tags
as all CAPITALS, all lowercase, or some funny
cOmbiNAtiON. In other words,
Tip: Make HTML tags all lowercase.
<TITLE> would work just as well as
<title> or <Title> or
even <tItLe>. Most experienced web authors prefer all lowercase,
such as <title>, for various reasons.
Remember: HTML filenames are sensitive to case!
It is worth mentioning that HTML filenames actually are
case-sensitive. Asking a server for a page named intro.html is
not the same as asking for Intro.html.
Spelling
Remember: Tags must be spelled correctly.
Tip: Check for misspelled tags.
HTML is sensitive to misspellings. If you accidently type
Tip: Check for misspelled tags.
<hed>, your browser will not understand that you meant to
type <head>. People are much better at understanding
that sort of mistake than a computer is! It is very easy to misspell
when you type, so if your page is not doing what you expect, try checking for
typos in your tags.
Try It: Try misspelling the
Browsers usually just ignore any tag they do not recognize. If
the tag is a container tag, whatever is inside it is printed normally.
<title> tag in your file. Reload to see what happens.