Another important syntax element of JSP are tags. JSP tags do not use <%, but just the < character. A JSP tag is somewhat like an HTML tag. JSP tags can have a "start tag", a "tag body" and an "end tag". The start and end tag both use the tag name, enclosed in < and > characters. The end starts with a / character after the < character. The tag names have an embedded colon character : in them, the part before the colon describes the type of the tag. For instance:
<some:tag> body </some:tag>
