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HTML: A Basic Overview

HTML is the standard markup language used to create web pages. It uses tags enclosed in angle brackets to define elements like headings, paragraphs, lists, links and other structural components. Browsers read HTML files and display the content without showing the tags, which provide instructions for interpreting and presenting the content. HTML allows images, objects and interactive forms to be embedded in pages and provides a way to create structured documents by denoting semantics for text. It can also include JavaScript scripts to affect page behavior. HTML is a tag-based language where tags instruct browsers on how to display content and require either opening and closing tags or a single opening tag.

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HTML: A Basic Overview

HTML is the standard markup language used to create web pages. It uses tags enclosed in angle brackets to define elements like headings, paragraphs, lists, links and other structural components. Browsers read HTML files and display the content without showing the tags, which provide instructions for interpreting and presenting the content. HTML allows images, objects and interactive forms to be embedded in pages and provides a way to create structured documents by denoting semantics for text. It can also include JavaScript scripts to affect page behavior. HTML is a tag-based language where tags instruct browsers on how to display content and require either opening and closing tags or a single opening tag.

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HTML: A basic Overview

Hypertext Markup Language, commonly referred to as HTML, is the standard markup


language used to create web pages. It is written in the form of HTML elements consisting
of tags enclosed in angle brackets (like <html>). Web browsers can read HTML files and render
them into visible or audible web pages. Browsers do not display the HTML tags and scripts, but
use them to interpret the content of the page. HTML describes the structure of a website along
with cues for presentation, making it a markup language, rather than a programming language.
HTML elements form the building blocks of all websites. HTML allows images and objects to be
embedded and can be used to create interactive forms. It provides a means to create structured
documents by denoting structural semantics for text such as headings, paragraphs, lists, links,
quotes and other items. It can embed scripts written in languages such as JavaScript which
affect the behavior of HTML web pages.

Requirements of HTML:
1. A text editor, like MS- word, Notepad etc. I would recommend notepad as it is easier to
use and is mostly used.
2. A web browser like Chrome, IE, Safari etc.
HTML is a tag based language. Tags are commands that instruct the web browser what to do
and how to do.

Types of HTML tags:


1. Container Element Tag The tags which require both on and off tags.
2. Empty Element Tags The tags which require only on tag.

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