HTML Guide
HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language (Hyper Text Markup Language)
HTML is the main language for building websites/webpages.
HTML is an easy-to-learn markup language.
HTML uses tags like <p> within angle brackets to define the content of a web page:
Example
<html> <body> <h1>My First Heading</h1> <p>My first paragraph.</p> </body> </html>
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HTML uses opening tags and closing tags to mark a web page element: In the above example, < The ;p> tag marks the beginning of a paragraph, and the </p> tag marks the end of the paragraph.
By using simple HTML tags, web designers can add titles, paragraphs, text, tables, pictures, lists, programming codes, etc. to a web page (HTML document).
Web browsers (IE, Firefox, Chrome, etc.) read HTML documents, interpret HTML tags, and display correct user-readable content (without displaying HTML tags):
According to the HTML standard, HTML can be used to define the content of a web page. /p>
To define visual styles (color, size, appearance, layout, etc.), CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) should be used (see next chapter).
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