Some HTML tags can be contained within other tags. Emphasized text can be part of a paragraph, for example. And Paragraphs are part of the body, or document, of your web page. Netscape keeps track of all of the tags that enclose whatever text you currently have selected.
At the bottom of the page, you see a “tag trail” of the tags you’ve applied to your text. You can select wider amounts of your document by selecting higher levels of the tag trail. For example, if your cursor is flashing in an emphasized phrase, in a paragraph, in the body of your document, you can click on the ‘em’ tag in the tag trail and the entire emphasized phrase will be selected. If you click on the ‘p’ tag, the entire paragraph will be selected. If you click on the ‘body’ tag, the entire document will be selected.