Unary_and_Binary_Tags

Most common tags in HTML are what are known as Binary tags. That is they consist of two ("bi-") parts, the opening and the closing tags, which surround the portion of text whose property you wish to affect. For example, the  tag in the following example demonstrates a binary tag. code format="html4strict" In fact, every bold tag is a binary tag. code Other binary tags include (please edit page to update this list)...

The other type of tag is a Unary tag. This consists of one ("Uni") tag which is both the opening tag and the closing tag at the same time. A unary tag is one that does not describe a portion of text, but what should happen between pieces of text. The horizontal line tag is a good example of this. It makes a horizontal line across the screen. It is not something that describes what should happen to text, but rather something that happens after one piece of text and before another. code format="html4strict" This makes a horizontal line between one bunch of text and another bunch of text. code Other unary tags include (please edit page to update this list)...