Ah, the <_> is meant to imply that you have to figure out the tag name to put in there, the _ is a placeholder. What would make that more clear?
(We do colored boxes in our JS hints, but I was going to avoid that complexity until necessary in HTML. It's possible it's already necessary).
I skipped to this activity and didn't read the instructions, so I didn't see the part about line breaks. It seems to me that a good solution would to be have the green guy mention the line break, or some other reinforcement of the fact that the goal is a line break.