HTML Introduction

Introduction

HTML is the standard markup language used for creating web pages. It describes the structure of a webpage using series of elements. Each HTML element tells teh browser how to display different parts of the content.

What is HTML ?

HTML stand for Hyper Text Markup Language.
It is the blueprint of web pages - used to structure and present content like text, images, videos and audio.
In simple terms, HTML is the language used to create and design web pages.
HTML files are saved with .html or .htm extensions.
All HTML elements are enclosed in angular brackets <> and are known as tags

Example: HTML First Web page

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
</head>

<body>
<h1>This is Heading</h1>
<p>This is Paragraph.</p>
</body>


</html>

Output:

Page Structure of HTML

Explanation

<!DOCTYPE html> - It Declares the document type as HTML5.
<html> - The root element of an HTML page.
<head> - Contains metadata (information) about the document.
<title> - Sets the title shown on the browser tab.
<body> - Contains all the visible content (headings, paragraphs, images etc.).
<h1> - Represents the main heading.
<p> - Defines a paragraph.

What is HTML Element ?

HTML Element is consist of tags that is starting tag and ending tag and have content in between them. Starting tags are in <>, where as ending tag are in </>

Example:
<h1>My First Heading</h1>
<p>This is paragraph</p>

Explanation

<h1> - this is starting tag
<p> - this is starting tag
</h1> - this is ending tag
</p> - this is ending tag
My First heading - This is content in between them
This is paragraph - This is content in between them

and the the whole <h1>My First Heading</h1> is called as element.