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HTML, or Hypertext Markup Language, is the primary language for creating web pages, allowing the linking of documents through hypertext. It uses tags to structure content, such as headings and paragraphs, and has a defined document structure including a header and body. Learning HTML involves understanding various tags and their usage to format text and images effectively.

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HTML

HTML, or Hypertext Markup Language, is the primary language for creating web pages, allowing the linking of documents through hypertext. It uses tags to structure content, such as headings and paragraphs, and has a defined document structure including a header and body. Learning HTML involves understanding various tags and their usage to format text and images effectively.

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HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language, and it is the most widely used language to

write Web Pages.

 Hypertext refers to the way in which Web pages (HTML documents) are linked
together. Thus, the link available on a webpage is called Hypertext.

 As its name suggests, HTML is a Markup Language which means you use HTML to
simply "mark-up" a text document with tags that tell a Web browser how to structure
it to display.

Originally, HTML was developed with the intent of defining the structure of documents like
headings, paragraphs, lists, and so forth to facilitate the sharing of scientific information
between researchers.

Now, HTML is being widely used to format web pages with the help of different tags available
in HTML language.

Basic HTML Document


In its simplest form, following is an example of an HTML document:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>This is document title</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is a heading</h1>
<p>Document content goes here.....</p>
</body>
</html>

HTML Tags
As told earlier, HTML is a markup language and makes use of various tags to format the
content. These tags are enclosed within angle braces <Tag Name>. Except few tags, most
of the tags have their corresponding closing tags. For example, <html> has its closing
tag</html> and <body> tag has its closing tag </body> tag etc.

Above example of HTML document uses the following tags:

Tag Description

<!DOCTYPE...> This tag defines the document type and HTML version.
This tag encloses the complete HTML document and mainly comprises
<html> of document header which is represented by <head>...</head> and
document body which is represented by <body>...</body> tags.

This tag represents the document's header which can keep other HTML

The <title> tag is used inside the <head> tag to mention the

This tag represents the document's body which keeps other HTML tags

<h1> This tag represents the heading.

To learn HTML, you will need to study various tags and understand how they behave, while
formatting a textual document. Learning HTML is simple as users have to learn the usage of
different tags in order to format the text or images to make a beautiful webpage.

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommends to use lowercase tags starting from HTML
4.

HTML Document Structure


A typical HTML document will have the following structure:

Document declaration tag


<html>
<head>
Document header related tags
</head>

<body>
Document body related tags
</body>
</html>

We will study all the header and body tags in subsequent chapters, but for now let's see what
is document declaration tag.

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