What is HTML?
HTML, which stands for Hypertext Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for web pages. It provides a means to create structured documents by denoting structural semantics for text such as headings, paragraphs, lists etc as well as for links, quotes, and other items. It allows images and objects to be embedded and can be used to create interactive forms. It is written in the form of HTML elements consisting of "tags" surrounded by angle brackets within the web page content. It can include or can load scripts in languages such as JavaScript, which affect the behavior of HTML processors like Web browsers, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to define the appearance and layout of text and other material. The use of CSS is encouraged over explicit presentational markup.
•HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
•HTML is not a programming language, it is a markup language
•A markup language is a set of markup tags
•HTML uses markup tags to describe web pages
HTML Tags
HTML markup tags are usually called HTML tags
•HTML tags are keywords surrounded by angle brackets like
•HTML tags normally come in pairs like and
•The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag
•Start and end tags are also called opening tags and closing tags.
HTML Documents = Web Pages
•HTML documents describe web pages
•HTML documents contain HTML tags and plain text
•HTML documents are also called web pages
The purpose of a web browser (like Internet Explorer or Firefox) is to read HTML documents and display them as web pages. The browser does not display the HTML tags, but uses the tags to interpret the content of the page:
<html>
<body>
<h1>My First Heading</h1>
<p>My first paragraph</p>
</body>
</html>
HTML Headings
<h1>This is a heading</h1>
<h2>This is a heading</h2>
<h3>This is a heading</h3>
HTML Paragraphs
HTML paragraphs are defined with the <p> tag.
<p>This is a paragraph</p>
<p>This is another paragraph</p>
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