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Introduction To HTML - Basics

The document introduces HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), explaining that it is a markup language used to describe web pages with tags. It distinguishes between HTML tags and elements, illustrating that tags are the instructions while elements include the tags and their content. Additionally, it provides examples of HTML syntax and activities for creating headings and paragraphs.

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Introduction To HTML - Basics

The document introduces HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), explaining that it is a markup language used to describe web pages with tags. It distinguishes between HTML tags and elements, illustrating that tags are the instructions while elements include the tags and their content. Additionally, it provides examples of HTML syntax and activities for creating headings and paragraphs.

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Introduction to HTML

V VIDYASHANKAR
29th JUNE 2025
 Hyper Text markup Language
 A markup language is a set of markup
tags

What is  HTML uses these markup tags to


HTML? describe web pages
 HTML is not a case sensitive language
 HTML documents contain tags as well as
text
 Tags are the elements that create
components of a page
 Tags surrounded by angle brackets usually
occur in pairs
HTML Example : <p> and </p> ( start and end
Elements tags )
 Convention is to use lower case
 Stuff between tags is called element
content
< html >
< head >
<title > …. Document title ….
</title>
</head>
HTML PAGE
< body >
…. Page content ….
< / body >
< / html >
EXAMPLE
SYNTAX
 What is the difference between elements
and tags?
 An HTML Tag is just the opening <p> or
closing </p> part. They are basically the
instructions.

ELEMENTS  An HTML element is the entire thing : the


& TAGS opening tag, the content tag and the
closing tag.
 Visualize a sandwich. The two slices of
bread are the tags and the complete
sandwich with everything else is the
element.
EXAMPLE
 Wetting hands with code!
 Create the largest heading with the text
‘Welcome’
 Create the second highest heading with
the text ‘About Us’
 Create the third highest heading with the
ACTIVITIES text ‘GeeksforGeeks’ aligned to the center
 Create the third smallest heading with the
text ‘Services’ and set its colour to
‘#0066cc’
 Create a paragraph with bold text ‘Hello
World’

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