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HTML is the standard markup language for creating Web pages.
HTML is the standard markup language for creating Web pages HTML describes the structure of a Web page
HTML elements tell the browser how to display the content HTML elements label pieces of content such as "this is a heading", "this is a paragraph", "this is a link", etc.
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head>
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< title > Page Title </title ></head> <body>
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< h1 > My First Heading </h1 >
< p > My first paragraph.</p ></body> </html>
<!DOCTYPE html> declaration defines that this document is an HTML5 document
<html> element is the root element of an HTML page
<head> element contains meta information about 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)
<body> element defines the document's body, and is a container for all the visible contents, such as headings, paragraphs, images, hyperlinks, tables, lists, etc.
<h1> element defines a large heading
<p> element defines a paragraph
An HTML element is defined by a start tag, some content, and an end tag: < tagname > Content goes here... < /tagname >
element is everything from the start tag to the end tag: < h1 > My
< /h1 > < p > My first paragraph. < /p >
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</h1> <p> My first paragraph. </p> <br> none none
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Some HTML elements have no content (like the < br >element). These elements are called empty elements. Empty elements do not have an end tag!
The purpose of a web browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari) is to read HTML documents and display them correctly. A browser does not display the HTML tags, but uses them to determine how to display the document: