FAQ: Languages for Web Development - Common Tags

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This community-built FAQ covers the “Common Tags” exercise from the lesson “Languages for Web Development”.

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Hello!

Every time I press (“less than” → “<”) i can’t see the symbol, I see only a red character until I close the tag. For me, this is very annoying. Is it possible to disable the feature which markes the “less than” with red?

See what I mean in this image:

[Album] Smaller than - marked with red
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The closing tags keep the html contents in place to avoid problem or going over into other content.

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Slide 5 would be improved if there was an actual example of what an anchor tag is. It isn’t that clear.
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I agree! This is exactly what I came to this forum to find.

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anchor element (or a )
<a>I'm an anchor element.</a>

opening tag is <a> ← it starts the a element.
closing tag is </a> ← it ends the a element.

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make the space between tags and content…maybe thats why it shows red

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the exercises in page five were already answered??. I don’t know if I had to do something, even thought it was asked to.

i.e. Put an opening and closing h1 tag around the text that says Jetsetter Travel Agency .

in the code it is already with the tags

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I have the same problem! It won’t let me continue until I do it, and it’s already done. :confused:

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same here! I mean, you just need to click “Run” and the tasks will be marked as completed, but what’s the point if the exercise is already done?

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lol they should check that

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Hi,
I am having issues in progressing to the ‘next step’. After I put my code in and click ‘run’, the web browser doesn’t load. is there any way I can fix this?
help is greatly appreciated.

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The browser will not know where the element ends and it will render an unexpected result.

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I just want to express my content at playing around with HTML element tags. I learned about when to use the tag for the heading, the tag for the paragraphs, tag for the anchor, and the tag for the button. Do these HTML tags have proper names?