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

EXAMPLE

!DOCTYPE html>
html>
head>
title>Page Title
/head>
body>
h1>This is a Heading
p>This is a paragraph.

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• 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 title> 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 h1> element defines a large heading
• The p> element defines a paragraph