figure - helloworldrendered in the browser the opening tag says that the enclosed text will appear in bold the closing tags tells the browser where the end of the bold text is there are many different tags in html some of these tags have extra properties in the form of attributes within the angle brackets for examplethe tag encloses text that should be link the url that the text links to is determined by the href attribute here' an exampleal' free < href="this html will look like figure - in browser figure - the link rendered in the browser some elements have an id attribute that is used to uniquely identify the element in the page you will often instruct your programs to seek out an element by its id attributeso figuring out an element' id attribute using the browser' developer tools is common task in writing web scraping programs viewing the source html of web page you'll need to look at the html source of the web pages that your programs will work with to do thisright-click (or ctrl-click on macosany web page in your web browserand select view source or view page source to see the html text of the page (see figure - this is the text your browser actually receives the browser knows how to displayor renderthe web page from this html web scraping