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HTML Basics - Introduction
HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language)
Hypertext is the organization of information units into connected associations (a.k.a. link).
Markup is a term that dates to pre-computer days when writers and copy editors marked up document elements with copy editing symbols or shorthand.
HTML is a Language. It has it's own set of words. It has it own grammatical rules.
The HTML tag
A tag is a generic term for a markup language element descriptor. It tells the browser how to display your content.
HTML tags have an opening tag and a closing tag:
<tag attribute="value">content goes here </tag>.
Basic HTML
All HTML page start with the <html> tag, and like most tags needs to be closed with </html >.
The <head> tag indicates the beginning of the document head section. The browser will display the page only after it had finished reading the head section. The head section is a good place to embed rules and scripts that will be applied in the documents. Don't forget to close the head section with </head>.
The page title is placed inside the head section between <title> and </title> tags.
The body section starts with <body> and ends with </body>. The content of the page should be enclosed by those tags.
View basic page example.
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