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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

INTRODUCTION TO HTML

HTML

HTML is a markup language for describing web documents (web pages).

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
A markup language is a set of markup tags
HTML documents are described by HTML tags
Each HTML tag describes different document content

Example

A small HTML document:

<html>
<head>
  <title>Page Title</title>
</head>

<body>
  <h1>My First Heading</h1>
  <p>My first paragraph.</p>
</body>

</html>

Example Description

The text between <html> and </html> describes an HTML document
The text between <head> and </head> provides information about the document
The text between <title> and </title> provides a title for the document
The text between <body> and </body> describes the visible page content
The text between <h1> and </h1> describes a heading
The text between <p> and </p> describes paragraph

HTML Tags

HTML tags are keywords (tag names) surrounded by angle brackets:

HTML tags normally come in pairs like <p> and </p>
The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag
The end tag is written like the start tag, but with a slash before the tag name

Web Browsers

Web browser like Chrome, IE, Firefox, Safari is to read HTML documents and display them.

The browser does not display the HTML tags, but to display the document:

HTML Page Structure

Below is a visualization of an HTML page structure:

<html>

<head>

<title>Page title</title>

</head>

<body>

<h1>This is a heading</h1>

<p>This is a paragraph.</p>

<p>This is another paragraph.</p>

</body>

</html>

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