Learning HTML



What is HTML?

    HTML is a language for describing web pages.
    HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
    HTML is a markup language
    A markup language is a set of markup tags
    The tags describe document content
    HTML documents contain HTML tags and plain text
    HTML documents are also called web pages

HTML Tags

     HTML markup tags are usually called HTML tags
     HTML tags are keywords (tag names) 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
    The end tag is written like the start tag, with a forward slash before the tag name
    Start and end tags are also called opening tags and closing tags

<tagname>content</tagname>


HTML Elements

"HTML tags" and "HTML elements" are often used to describe the same thing.

But strictly speaking, an HTML element is everything between the start tag and the end tag, including the tags:

HTML Element:
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>



Web Browsers

The purpose of a web browser (such as Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari) is to read HTML documents and display them as web pages.

The browser does not display the HTML tags, but uses the tags to determine how the content of the HTML page is to be presented/displayed to the user:

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