janusha: HTML introduction

Thursday, October 12, 2017

HTML introduction

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language.

HTML describes the structure of web page using markup.

HTML elements are the building blocks of HTML pages.

HTML elements are represented by tags.

HTML tags label pieces of content such as "heading", "paragraph", "table".

<!DOCTYPE html>

This document to be HTML5(2014)

<html>

The root element of an HTML page.

<head>

Contains meta information about the document.

<title>

Specifies a title for the document.

<body>

Contains the visible page content.

<h1>

Defines a large heading.

<p>

Defines a paragraph.

Opening tag

<tag name>

Closing tag

</tag name>

Contents are written between opening tag and closing tag.

<!DOCTYPE>

Represents the document type.

<!DOCTYPE> declaration is not case sensitive.

HTML headings

HTML headings are defined with the <h1> to <h6> tags.

<h1> defines the most important heading(biggest heading).

<h6> defines the least important heading(smallest heading).

HTML links

HTML links are defined with the <a> tag.

The links destination is specified in the href attribute.

Example: <a href="http://janusha997.blogspot.com/">This is a link</a>

HTML images

HTML images are defined with the <img> tag.

The source file(src), alternative text(alt), width and height are provided as attributes.

Attributes means additional information about HTML elements.

Example: <img src=" " alt=" " width=" " height=" ">

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