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HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language

HTML is the main language for building websites/creating web pages.

HTML is an easy-to-learn markup language.

HTML uses markup tags like <p> in angle brackets to define the content of a web page:

HTML Examples

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Example (example.com)</title>
</head>
<body>

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

</body>
</html>

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HTML uses start tags and end tags to mark a web page element. In the above example:

  • <h1>The tag marks the start of a heading,</h1>marks the end of that heading.

  • <p>The tag marks the start of a paragraph,</p>marks the end of that paragraph.

By using simple HTML tags, web designers can add headings, paragraphs, text, tables, images, lists, programming code, etc. to a web page (HTML document).

Web browsers (Edge, Firefox, Chrome, etc.) read HTML documents, interpret HTML tags, and display correct user-readable content (without displaying HTML tags):

According to HTML standards, HTML can be used to define the content of web pages.

To define visual styles (colors, sizes, appearance, layout, etc.), you should use CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) (see next chapter).

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