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>
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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 let's save it in an HTML file test.htm
using your favorite text editor. Finally open it using a web browser like
Internet Explorer or Google Chrome, or Firefox etc.
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:
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Description:
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<!DOCTYPE...>---------------------
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This tag defines the document type
and HTML version.
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<html> ---------------------------
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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.
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<head> ---------------------------
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This tag represents the document's header
which can keep other HTML tags like <title>, <link> etc.
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<title>
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The <title> tag is used inside
the <head> tag to mention the document title.
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<body>
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This tag represents the document's
body which keeps other HTML tags like <h1>, <div>, <p> etc.
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<h1>------------------------------
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This tag represents the heading.
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<p> ------------------------------
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This tag represents a paragraph.
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