Introduction to HTML
Feb 1, 2016 01:07
HTML is a language used to put text, images, links, and other elements on a webpage. Here's a very basic HTML document:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>My Page</title>
</head>
<body>
Hi, here is some text.
</body>
</html>
What does this look like in a browser?
When a web browser (e.g. Chrome) reads the HTML, it creates this:
What do the different parts mean?
What are tags?
In the HTML document above, we see:
<html>
This is called a tag. The <html> tag signifies the beginning of the document, and is an opening tag. At the end of the document we see:
</html>
Notice it has a slash / in it. That makes it a closing tag. The