Summary 1: HTML Basics

An Introduction To HTML

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language and is the standard markup language for creating Web pages. HTML describes the structure of a Web page and consists of a series of elements. HTML elements tell the browser how to display the content and these elements label pieces of content such as "this is a heading", "this is a paragraph", "this is a link", etc.

Basic HTML Examples

All HTML documents must start with a document type declaration.declaration represents the document type, and helps browsers to display web pages correctly and it must only appear once, at the top of the page (before any HTML tags) . Attributes are used to provide additional information about HTML elements.

The Elements of HTML

Some HTML elements have no content. These elements are called empty elements. Empty elements do not have an end tag!