What is
HTML?
HTML is a language for describing web pages.
- HTML
stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
- HTML
is not a programming language, it is a markup language
- A
markup language is a set of markup tags
- HTML
uses markup tags to describe web
pages
HTML Tags
HTML markup tags are usually called HTML tags
- HTML
tags are keywords surrounded by angle brackets like
<html>
- HTML
tags normally come in pairs like <b>
and </b>
- The
first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag
is the end tag
- Start
and end tags are also called opening tags and closing tags
HTML
Documents = Web Pages
- HTML
documents describe web
pages
- HTML
documents contain HTML tags and plain text
- HTML
documents are also called web pages
The purpose of a web browser (like Internet
Explorer or Firefox) is to read HTML documents and display them as web pages.
The browser does not display the HTML tags, but uses the tags to interpret the
content of the page:
<html>
<body>
<h1>My First Heading</h1>
<p>My first paragraph.</p>
</body>
</html>
Example
Explained
- The
text between <html> and </html> describes the web page
- The
text between <body> and </body> is the visible page content
- The
text between <h1> and </h1> is displayed as a heading
- The
text between <p> and </p> is displayed as a paragraph
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