The language for building web pages.
- HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
- HTML is the standard markup language for creating Web pages
- HTML describes the structure of a Web page
- HTML consists of a series of elements
- HTML elements tell the browser how to display the content
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is a Heading</h1>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
</body>
</html>
- The
<!DOCTYPE html> declaration defines
that this document is an HTML5 document
- The
<html> element is the root element of an HTML
page
- The
<head> element contains meta information about the HTML page
- The
<title> element specifies a title for the HTML page (which is shown in the browser's title bar or in the page's tab)
- The
<body> element defines the document's body, and is a container for all the visible contents, such as headings, paragraphs, images, hyperlinks, tables, lists, etc.
- The
<h1> element defines a large heading
- The
<p> element defines a paragraph