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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