HTML Overview
HTML stands for Hpertex Markup Language, and it is the most widely used language to write Web Page.
Hypertext refers to the way in which Web Page (HTML document) are linked together. Thus the link available on a webpage are called Hypertex.
Basic HTML Document
In its simplest form, follow the example of 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>
Either you can use Try it option available at the top right corner of the code box to check the result of this HTML code, or you can save it HTML file as: test.html. Finally open it using a web browser like Google Chrome, Firefox, so on. It must show the following output:
HTML Tags
As told earlies, 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.
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 folloiwng tags:
| Tag | Description |
|---|---|
| <!DOCTYPE...> | This tag defines the document type and HTML version. |
| <html> | This tag encloses the complete HTML document and mainly comprises of document header which is represented by<head>...</head> and document body which is represented by <body>...</body> tags. |
| <head> | This tag represents the document's header which can keep other HTML tags like <title>, <link> etc. |
| <title> | The <title> tag is used inside the <head> tag to mention the document title. |
| <body> | This tag represents the document's body which keeps other HTML tags like <h1>, <div>, <p> etc. |
| <h1> | This tag represents the heading. |
| <p> | This tag represents a paragraph. |
To learn HTML, you will need to study various tags and understand how do 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 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, for now let's see what is document declaration tag.
The <!DOCTYPE> Declaration
The <!Doctype> declaration tag is used by the web browser to understand the version of the HTML used in the document. Current version of HTML is 5 and it makes use of the following declaration:
<!DOCTYPE html>There are many other declaration types which can be used in HTML document depending on what version of HTML is being used. We will see more details on this while discussing <!DOCTYPE...> tag along with other HTML tags.
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