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As mentioned earlier webpages are written in plain text with a markup language. HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. It is derived from a markup language that was used in the printing industry (SGML).

While you can use WYSIWYG editors to create your webpages, it is my experience that you will run into situations where the editor will do something you don't want it to. Then you will want to go 'backstage' and straighten things out for yourself. It is then you will need to have a reasonable knowledge of HTML.

Spaces are important. Leaving a blank space after a < or immediately before > will result in an error.

Breaking up your lines by leaving 
           big blanks will not result in any error, 
                    nor will you see the large blank spaces.

If you write your code like this, it will appear in the browser something like this:

Breaking up your lines by leaving big blanks will not result in any error, nor will you see the large blank spaces