HTML is a markup language for describing web documents (web pages) in a web application.
- 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
HTML Example:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>My First Heading</h1>
<p>My first paragraph.</p>
</body>
</html>
Example Explained:
- The DOCTYPE declaration defines the document type to be HTML
- The text in <html> ...</html> describes an HTML document
- The text in <head> ...</head> provides information about the document
- The text in <title> ...</title> provides a title for the document
- The text in <body> ...</body> describes the visible page content
- The text in <h1> ...</h1> describes a heading
- The text in <p> ...</p> describes a paragraph
Using this description, a web browser can display a document with a heading and a paragraph on web.
HTML Tags:
HTML tags are keywords (tag names) surrounded by angle(<,>) brackets:
<tagname>content</tagname>
HTML tags normally come in pairs like <p> and </p>
The first tag in a pair is the start tag and the second tag is the end tag
