An HTML Tag is the part of an HTML Element that defines what type of element it is. Each type of Element has a specific behavior.
Most HTML Elements begin and end with the Tags that define the type of element.
<p>This is a paragraph element.</p>
An HTML Begin Tag is the tag name inside the less than "<" character and the greater than ">" character. As in: <p>.
An HTML End Tag is the tag name with a slash "/" in front of it. It is also inside the "less than" and "greater than" character. As in: </p>.
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