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HTML is a markup language used to define the structure and layout of web pages. HTML documents use tags to describe different types of content like headings, paragraphs, etc. A web browser reads HTML documents and displays them by using the tags to determine how to show the content on the page. Common tags include <html> <head> <title> <body> <h1> <p> which are used to define overall page structure, the document title, visible content sections, headings, and paragraphs.

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HTML is a markup language used to define the structure and layout of web pages. HTML documents use tags to describe different types of content like headings, paragraphs, etc. A web browser reads HTML documents and displays them by using the tags to determine how to show the content on the page. Common tags include <html> <head> <title> <body> <h1> <p> which are used to define overall page structure, the document title, visible content sections, headings, and paragraphs.

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What is HTML?

HTML is a markup language for describing web documents (web pages).

 HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language


 A markup language is a set of markup tags
 HTML documents are described by HTML tags
 Each HTML tag describes different document content

A Small HTML Document


Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>BABURAO Technologies</title>
</head>
<body>

<h1>Welcome to HTML5</h1>
<p>This is BabuRao MadhumehPohey</p>

</body>
</html>

Example Explained

 The <!DOCTYPE html> declaration defines this document to be HTML5


 The text between <html> and </html> describes an HTML document
 The text between <head> and </head> provides information about the
document
 The text between <title> and </title> provides a title for the document
 The text between <body> and </body> describes the visible page
content
 The text between <h1> and </h1> describes a heading
 The text between <p> and </p> describes a paragraph
Using this description, a web browser will display a document with a heading
and a paragraph.

HTML Tags
HTML tags are keywords (tag names) surrounded by angle brackets:

<tagname>content goes here...</tagname>

 HTML tags normally come in pairs like <p> and </p>


 The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag
 The end tag is written like the start tag, but with a forward
slash inserted before the tag name

The start tag is also called the opening tag, and the end tag the closing tag.

Web Browsers
The purpose of a web browser (Chrome, IE, Firefox, Safari) is to read HTML
documents and display them.

The browser does not display the HTML tags, but uses them to determine how
to display the document:
HTML Page Structure
Below is a visualization of an HTML page structure:

<html>

<head>

<title>Page title</title>

</head>

<body>

<h1>This is a heading</h1>

<p>This is a paragraph.</p>

<p>This is another paragraph.</p>

</body>
</html>

Note: Only the content inside the <body> section (the white area above) is
displayed in a browser.

The <!DOCTYPE> Declaration


The <!DOCTYPE> declaration represents the document type, and helps the
browser to display a web page correctly.

It must only appear once, at the top of the page (before any HTML tags).

There are different document types. To display a web page correctly, the
browser must know both type and version.

The doctype declaration is not case sensitive. All cases are acceptable:

<!DOCTYPE html>

<!doctype HTML>

Common <!DOCTYPE> Declarations


HTML5
<!DOCTYPE html>

HTML 4.01
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

XHTML 1.0
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
All tutorials and examples at W3Schools use HTML5.

HTML Versions
Since the early days of the web, there have been many versions of HTML:

Version Year

HTML 1991

HTML 2.0 1995

HTML 3.2 1997

HTML 4.01 1999

XHTML 2000

HTML5 2014

HTML Editors
Write HTML Using Notepad or TextEdit
Web pages can be created and modified by using professional HTML editors.
However, for learning HTML we recommend a simple text editor like Notepad
(PC) or TextEdit (Mac).

We believe using a simple text editor is a good way to learn HTML.

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