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 describes 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
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<tagname>content</tagname>
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· HTML Elements
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"HTML tags" and "HTML
elements" are often used to describe the same thing.
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But strictly speaking, an HTML element is
everything between the start tag and the end tag, including the tags:
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HTML Element:
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<p>This
is a paragraph.</p>
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