What is HTML?
HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) is the standard markup language for creating Web pages.
HTML is made of tags that describe the type of content enclosed.
Ex: <p></p> is for paragraphs
HTML Code Example
HTML Code Example Explained
- The
<!DOCTYPE HTML>declaration defines this document to be HTML5 - The
<html>element is the root element of an HTML page - The
<head>element contains meta information about 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 - The
<img>element defines an image
HTML Tags
HTML tags are element names surrounded by angle brackets:
<tagname>Content goes here.</tagname>
- HTML tags normally come in pairs like
<p>and</p> - The first tag in a pair is the opening tag, the second tag is the closing tag
- The closing tag is written like the opening tag, but with a forward slash inserted before the tag name
Web Browsers
The purpose of a web browser is to read HTML documents and display them.
The browser does not display the HTML tags, but uses them to determine how to display the document:
Example Web Browsers (In order of stability and usability):
- Google Chrome
- Mozilla Firefox
- Opera
- Vivaldi
- Microsoft Edge
- Apple Safari
- Microsoft Internet Explorer