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Headings Are Important

*Use the HTML heading tags for headings only. Don't use headings to make something BIG or bold.
*Search engines use your headings to index the structure and content of your web pages.
*Since users may skim your pages by its headings, it is important to use headings to show the document structure.
*H1 headings should be used as main headings, followed by H2 headings, and less important H3 headings, and so on.

HTML Comments

*Comments can be inserted in the HTML code to make it more readable and understandable. *Comments are ignored by the browser and not displayed.
*Comments are written like this:

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Note: There is an exclamation point after the opening bracket, but not before the closing bracket.

HTML Tip - How to View HTML Source

*Have you ever seen a Web page and wondered "Hey! How did they do that?"
*To find out, click the VIEW option in your browser's toolbar and select SOURCE or PAGE SOURCE.

*This will open a window that shows you the HTML code of the page.

Examples From This Page

Headings

*This example demonstrates the tags that display headings in an HTML document.
Hidden comments

*This example demonstrates how to insert a hidden comment in the HTML source code.

HTML Tag Reference

*When you lookup W3Schools' tag reference, you will see additional information about tags and their attributes.
*You will learn more about HTML tag attributes in the next chapters of this tutorial.

HTML documents are divided into paragraphs.

Note: Browsers automatically adds an empty line before and after paragraphs.
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The example above will work in most browsers, but don't rely on it. Forgetting the end tag can produce unexpected results or errors.
Note: Future version of HTML will not allow you to skip end tags.