HTML Introduction

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HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. HTML is the standard markup language for creating Web pages.  Markup in HTML defines the definition and presentation of text shown on webpages. It specifies code for formatting, both the layout and style, within a text file. The code used to specify the formatting are called tags.

Some of the features or characteristics of HTML are

HTML describes the structure of Web pages using markup

HTML elements are the building blocks of HTML pages

HTML elements are represented by tags

HTML tags label pieces of content such as "heading", "paragraph", "table", and so on

Browsers do not display the HTML tags, but use them to display the content of the page

HTML contains three basic parts

Head, Title and Body. Head tag contains the information about the text to be displayed on HTML page. Title tag shows the Title on the HTML page. Body tag contains the actual text to be displayed.

Here is an example of simple HTML

＜html＞

＜head＞

＜title＞Page Title＜/title＞

＜/head＞

＜body＞

＜h1＞My First Heading＜/h1＞

＜p＞My first paragraph. ＜/p＞

＜/body＞

＜/html＞

Code Source: https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_intro.asp

Let’s consider each HTML element

The html element is the root element of an HTML page

The head element contains meta information about the document

The title element specifies a title for the document

The body element contains the visible page content

The h1 element defines a large heading

The p element defines a paragraph

tags are basic building blocks of HTML which tells the computer how text should be displayed. Tags are of two types

container tags and empty tags

Container tags are used in pairs it has starting tag and ending tag. starting tag contains the name of the tag while the ending tag contains the forward slash and tag name to mark the ending of the tag. Some examples of container tags are HTML, Head and body

Empty tags are single tags which are only used independently. The example of Empty tag is BR or break rule

Let’s create our first HTML

Open Notepad

Type in or Paste the code from the description

Save the file as HTML file

Browse to the location of HTML file

Double Click to open the file

Notice Page Title, Heading and Paragraph of Page Displayed

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