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Tariq wazir
3,369 Points(html)- why all of the codes must be between tag?
(html)- why all of the codes must be between tag?
1 Answer
Jamie Reardon
Treehouse Project ReviewerYou are coding in the html language, so when creating html tags, you will want your code between them because you are essentially telling the computer hey I am inputting html, read it like that. It will understand you are outputing html. The browser will therefore understand the html code and can output it to the screen correctly. Computers arent mind readers, but they are smart when you tell them what to do by sending computer instructions.
Any code that is not in-between the tags may cause errors or be outputted by the computer the way you didn't intend it to be.
Some (to my knowledge) coding languages have their code wrapped between identical tag identifiers for example:
PHP
<?php
// Php code here...
?>
Other coding languages don't have opening and closing name conventional tags, they are just saved and recognized by the computer with their file extension name instead.