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HTML Introduction: Example

The document introduces HTML as a markup language used to describe web pages, where HTML tags are used to define headings, paragraphs and other elements, and HTML documents containing these tags are displayed by web browsers as web pages.

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HTML Introduction: Example

The document introduces HTML as a markup language used to describe web pages, where HTML tags are used to define headings, paragraphs and other elements, and HTML documents containing these tags are displayed by web browsers as web pages.

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HTML Introduction

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Example
<html> <body> <h1>My First Heading</h1> <p>My first paragraph.</p> </body> </html> Try it yourself

What is HTML?
HTML is a language for describing web pages.

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language HTML is not a programming language, it is a markup language A markup language is a set of markup tags HTML uses markup tags to describe web pages

HTML Tags
HTML markup tags are usually called HTML tags

HTML tags are keywords surrounded by angle brackets like <html> HTML tags normally come in pairs like <b> and </b> The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag Start and end tags are also called opening tags and closing tags

HTML Documents = Web Pages


HTML documents describe web pages HTML documents contain HTML tags and plain text HTML documents are also called web pages

The purpose of a web browser (like Internet Explorer or Firefox) is to read HTML documents and display them as web pages. The browser does not display the HTML tags, but uses the tags to interpret the content of the page: <html> <body> <h1>My First Heading</h1> <p>My first paragraph.</p> </body> </html>

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