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.
"Slave is an Ephebian word. In Om we have no word for slave," said Vorbis.
"So I understand," said the Tyrant. "I imagine that fish have no word for water."
Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
