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Unit 1 Lesson 2 Introduction to HTML

This document provides an introduction to HTML, explaining its definition, structure, and purpose as the standard markup language for web pages. It covers HTML tags, their functions, and the role of web browsers in displaying HTML content. Additionally, it outlines the basic structure of an HTML document, including the <html>, <head>, and <body> tags.

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Unit 1 Lesson 2 Introduction to HTML

This document provides an introduction to HTML, explaining its definition, structure, and purpose as the standard markup language for web pages. It covers HTML tags, their functions, and the role of web browsers in displaying HTML content. Additionally, it outlines the basic structure of an HTML document, including the <html>, <head>, and <body> tags.

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Global Paradigm Baccalaureate School

British School
2024 – 2025 ACADEMIC YEAR

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Unit 1
Lesson 2
Introduction to HTML

1-What is HTML?

♦ HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language.

♦ HTML is the standard markup language for creating Web pages.

♦ HTML describes the structure of a Web page.

♦ HTML consists of a series of elements.

♦ HTML elements tell the browser how to display the content.

2-What is an HTML tags?

. HTML is a markup language, which consists of a set of markup tags.


1) HTML tags are keywords (tag names) surrounded by angle brackets < > .

2) Tags are the essential building blocks of HTML document.

3)HTML tags normally come in pairs like <html> and </html>

4)The first tag in a pair is the start tag or (opening tag), the second tag is the

end tag or (closing tag).


5)The end tag is written like the start tag, but with a back slash inserted

before the tag name.


<p> This is an element </p>

Opening tag Content closing tag

4-Search Engines
A web search engine is a computer program used to search for information on
the world wide web (www) or the internet by looking for keywords or a set of
words which the user has typed in.

The most famous search engine:

Bing
Google Yahoo

5-Web browser:

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

A browser does not display the HTML tags, but uses them to determine how to
display the webpage content.
Example:

<html>
<head>
<title>Index</title>
<body>
<h1>My First Heading</h1>
<p>My first paragraph</p>
</body>
</html>

6-HTML Structure:
HTML Structure
<html> Tag Description
<head> This tag describes an HTML document
<title>title text and composed of document header
here</title> which is represented by
<html>
<head>...</head> and document
</head> body which is represented by
<body>...</body> tags.
<body>

Welcome to my website This tag represents information


<head>
about the document.
</body>
It provides a title for the document
</html>
<title> which appears on the title of the web
page.

<body> It describes the page content.

Note:
1. The content inside the <body> section will be displayed in a browser.

2. The content inside the <title> element will be shown in the browser's
title bar or in the page's tab.

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