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HTML Introduction

HTML is the standard markup language for creating Web pages.

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
• HTML elements label pieces of content such as «this is a heading», «this is a paragraph», «this is a link», etc.

A Simple HTML Document

Example

My First Heading

My first paragraph.

Example Explained

• The declaration defines that this document is an HTML5 document
• The element is the root element of an HTML page
• The element contains meta information about the HTML page
• The element specifies a title for the HTML page (which is shown in the browser’s title bar or in the page’s tab)
• The element defines the document’s body, and is a container for all the visible contents, such as headings, paragraphs, images, hyperlinks, tables, lists, etc.
• The element defines a large heading
• The

  element defines a paragraph

What is an HTML Element?

An HTML element is defined by a start tag, some content, and an end tag:

The HTML element is everything from the start tag to the end tag:

Note: Some HTML elements have no content (like the
element). These elements are called empty elements. Empty elements do not have an end tag!

Web Browsers

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 document:

HTML Page Structure

Below is a visualization of an HTML page structure:

This is a heading

This is another paragraph.

Note: The content inside the section will be displayed in a browser. The content inside the element will be shown in the browser’s title bar or in the page’s tab.

HTML History

Since the early days of the World Wide Web, there have been many versions of HTML:

Year	Version
1989	Tim Berners-Lee invented www
1991	Tim Berners-Lee invented HTML
1993	Dave Raggett drafted HTML+
1995	HTML Working Group defined HTML 2.0
1997	W3C Recommendation: HTML 3.2
1999	W3C Recommendation: HTML 4.01
2000	W3C Recommendation: XHTML 1.0
2008	WHATWG HTML5 First Public Draft
2012	WHATWG HTML5 Living Standard
2014	W3C Recommendation: HTML5
2016	W3C Candidate Recommendation: HTML 5.1
2017	W3C Recommendation: HTML5.1 2nd Edition
2017	W3C Recommendation: HTML5.2

This tutorial follows the latest HTML5 standard.

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Introduction to HTML

At its heart, HTML is a language made up of elements, which can be applied to pieces of text to give them different meaning in a document (Is it a paragraph? Is it a bulleted list? Is it part of a table?), structure a document into logical sections (Does it have a header? Three columns of content? A navigation menu?), and embed content such as images and videos into a page. This module will introduce the first two of these and introduce fundamental concepts and syntax you need to know to understand HTML.

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Prerequisites

Before starting this module, you don’t need any previous HTML knowledge, but you should have at least basic familiarity with using computers and using the web passively (i.e., just looking at it and consuming content). You should have a basic work environment set up (as detailed in Installing basic software), and understand how to create and manage files (as detailed in Dealing with files). Both are parts of our Getting started with the web complete beginner’s module.

Note: If you are working on a computer/tablet/other device where you don’t have the ability to create your own files, you could try out (most of) the code examples in an online coding program such as JSBin or Glitch.

Guides

This module contains the following articles, which will take you through all the basic theory of HTML and provide ample opportunity for you to test out some skills.

Covers the absolute basics of HTML, to get you started — we define elements, attributes, and other important terms, and show where they fit in the language. We also show how a typical HTML page is structured and how an HTML element is structured, and explain other important basic language features. Along the way, we’ll play with some HTML to get you interested!

The head of an HTML document is the part that is not displayed in the web browser when the page is loaded. It contains information such as the page , links to CSS (if you want to style your HTML content with CSS), links to custom favicons, and metadata (data about the HTML, such as who wrote it, and important keywords that describe the document).

One of HTML’s main jobs is to give text meaning (also known as semantics), so that the browser knows how to display it correctly. This article looks at how to use HTML to break up a block of text into a structure of headings and paragraphs, add emphasis/importance to words, create lists, and more.

Hyperlinks are really important — they are what makes the web a web. This article shows the syntax required to make a link and discusses best practices for links.

There are many other elements in HTML for formatting text that we didn’t get to in the HTML text fundamentals article. The elements here are less well-known, but still useful to know about. In this article, you’ll learn about marking up quotations, description lists, computer code and other related text, subscript and superscript, contact information, and more.

As well as defining individual parts of your page (such as «a paragraph» or «an image»), HTML is also used to define areas of your website (such as «the header», «the navigation menu», or «the main content column»). This article looks into how to plan a basic website structure and how to write the HTML to represent this structure.

Writing HTML is fine, but what if something goes wrong, and you can’t work out where the error in the code is? This article will introduce you to some tools that can help.

Assessments

The following assessments will test your understanding of the HTML basics covered in the guides above.

We all learn to write a letter sooner or later; it is also a useful example to test out text formatting skills. In this assessment, you’ll be given a letter to mark up.

This assessment tests your ability to use HTML to structure a simple page of content, containing a header, a footer, a navigation menu, main content, and a sidebar.

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HTML Tutorial

In this HTML tutorial, whether you’re a beginner or a professional, this tutorial covers everything you need to know to learn HTML, from the basics to advanced. Providing step-by-step instructions for easy learning, it will help you become proficient in HTML.

HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. It is used to design the web pages. With the help of HTML, you can create a complete website structure. HTML is the combination of Hypertext and Markup language. Hypertext defines the link between the web pages and markup language defines the text document within the tag that define the structure of web pages.

Why HTML is used?

HTML is used to create the structure of web pages and website that are displayed on the Internet. HTML basically contains Tags and Attributes that are used to design the web pages. Also, we can link multiple pages using Hyperlinks.

HTML Basic Structure of Web Page

The basic structure of an HTML page is laid out below. It contains the essential building-block elements (i.e. doctype declaration, HTML, head, title, and body elements) upon which all web pages are created.

HTML Basic Tags

Example: This is the basic example of HTML that display the heading and paragraph content.

HTML

         
Welcome to GeeksforGeeks
 
A computer science portal for geeks
   

Complete References

HTML Interview Questions

HTML Practice Quiz Sets

HTML Cheat Sheet

HTML Cheat Sheet is a simple, and quick reference list of basic HTML elements and attributes. The purpose of this Cheat Sheet is to provide you with some quick accurate ready-to-use code snippets and necessary HTML tags and attributes.

HTML Examples

HTML examples contains a wide collection of HTML programming examples. The HTML examples are categorized based on the topics including hyperlinks, forms, tables, frames, and many more.

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