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Chapter 1 — A Brief History and Creating Your First Page

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<h1>The Best Ice-Cream
<p>A paragraph about the best frozen goodness I have ever eaten.
</h1>
</p>

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The example above is incorrect because the <h1>...</h1> ends after the <p>...</p>
begins. You should not put any other tag inside a header tag.

<h1>The Best Ice-Cream
<p>A paragraph about the best frozen goodness I have ever eaten.</p>
</h1>
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This example is incorrect because the <p>...</p> is nested inside of the header. The
<h1>...</h1> tag is not a container, but should be a description of the tags that follow it.

Here is a correct example of nesting:
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<h1>The Best Ice-Cream</h1>
<p>A paragraph about the best frozen goodness I have ever eaten.</p>
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Remember, proper nesting is one of the most important aspects of writing an HTML document.

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HTML Entities — Displaying Special Characters

In an HTML document <, >, and & have a special meaning. You should not include them in the
text of your pages as they will potentially confuse the web browser. However, if you need to
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add special symbols and Unicode characters to your page, you may do so using HTML Entities.
The table below shows a few of the character entity mark-ups:
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Entity Character

< <

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