HTML is the language used to create web pages. It stands for HyperText Markup Language. HTML is a markup language, which is a type of computer language. HTML uses tags to identify different parts of a web page.
Tags are words surrounded by angle brackets, like this: .
Tags come in pairs, a start tag and an end tag. The start tag is the beginning of the element, and the end tag is the end of the element.
The following is an example of a simple HTML document:
Hello, world!
The declaration is a special tag that tells the web browser that the document is written in HTML.
The tag is the root element of the document. It contains all of the other elements.
The
tag contains information about the document, like the title.The
tag contains the content of the document.HTML tags are not case sensitive. The
tag is the same as the
tag.
HTML tags are usually written in lowercase.
There are many different HTML tags. Here are some of the most common ones:
HTML is a very simple language, but it can be used to create complex web pages.
In the next lesson, we will learn about the different parts of an HTML document.