HTML is the standard language for making a web page. It stands for Hyper Text Mark-up Language and is the main structure for every web page. HTML is made up of elements, these elements work together to create a harmony on the live web page. An element consists of everything from a start tag to an end tag. Tags work together to define what the text will look like in its final state. They define the shape, size, color and many more features of what text can look like.
There are several different kinds of elements, some elements do not have content inside the tag such as < br > for break. This tag does not need a closing to be complete, it is called an empty element. Nested elements are elements that contain other elements, which make up most of the code.
Web browsers are made to read HTML documents and display them on the web correctly. In HTML, the section < body > is what will show on the web screen. Anything above or below that will not show. All HTML documents must start with < DOCTYPE! Html >. This declaration represents the document as a whole and allows the browsers to display the webpage correctly.