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What is HTML?

HTML is a language for describing web pages.

    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>
    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

    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 browsers (like Internet Explorer) 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>Heading</h1>
<p>paragraph</p>
</body>
</html>
 

Example Explained

  • The text between <html> and </html> describes the web page
  • The text between <body> and </body> is the visible page content
  • The text between <h1> and </h1> is displayed as a heading
  • The text between <p> and </p> is displayed as a paragraph
 
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