4. What is HTML?
• HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language
• HTML describes the structure of Web Pages using markup
• HTML elements are building blocks of HTML pages
• HTML elements are represented by tags
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• Markup
• Markup refers to the sequence of characters or other symbols that you insert at certain
places in a text or word processing file to indicate how the file should look when it is
printed or displayed or to describe the document's logical structure.The markup
indicators are often called "tags."
7. HTML Basics
• All HTML documents must start with a document type declaration:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
• The HTML document itself begins with <html> & end with </html>
• The visible part of the HTML document is between <body> & </body>
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• HTMLTags
• The hidden keywords within a webpage that define how our web browser must format
& display the content.
• Most tags have two parts an opening part & a closing part e.g. <html> is opening tag &
</html> is the closing tag.
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• HTML Elements
• An HTML element usually consists of a start tag & an end tag, with the content
inserted between them. For example the paragraph element will be like this:
<p>My first paragraph.</p>
Element