The HTML tags we will (hopefully) use today are colored orange.
The HTML element is everything from the start tag to the end tag.
<p>
middle (a.k.a. content)</p>
Video describing basics of HTML - Hamburger Text Markup Language - start at 0:28
Right click on a web site and select "view page source" from the drop down menu.
Some tags need attributes to work. For example
<img>
and
<a>
.