<h1>Header Text</h1>

<p>Paragraph Text</p>

You will notice how the opening tag is merely a word contained in angled brackets, while the ending tag is the same, but with a forward slash after the opening angled bracket. Tag pairs will always contain the same opening tag name as the closing tag name.

It is important to note that while most tags come in pairs, with an opening and a closing tag, sometimes tags can be just an opening tag, without the need for a closing tag. We will explore this concept later in this chapter.

Tags can also be nested within other tags; this is useful for when you want a piece of content to sit inside another piece of content. For example, you might want some text inside a box; in this case you would nest the text tag inside the tag for your box. Let’s see a syntax example below: