What is HTML?

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language

HTML is the standard markuplanguage for Web pages

HTML elements are the building blocks of HTML pages

HTML elements are represented by <> tags

HTML Elements

An HTML element is a start tag and an endtag with content in between:

<h1>This is a Heading</h1>

HTML Attributes

  • HTML elements can have attributes
  • Attributes provide additional information about the element
  • Attributes come in name/value pairs like charset=”utf-8″

A Simple HTML Document

Example Explained

HTML elements are the building blocks of HTML pages.

  • The <!DOCTYPE html> declaration defines this document to be HTML5
  • The <html> element is the root element of an HTML page
  • The lang attribute  defines the language of the document
  • The <meta> element contains meta information about the document
  • The charset attribure defines the character set used in 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

HTML Documents

All HTML documents must start with a document type declaration: <!DOCTYPE html>.

The HTML document itself begins with <html> and ends with </html>.

The visible part of the HTML document is between <body> and </body>.

HTML Document Structure

Below is a visualization of an HTML document (an HTML Page):

Note: Only the content inside the <body> section (the white area above) is displayed in a browser.

To learn more visit this website:

https://www.w3schools.com