HTML Introduction

HTML is the standard language for creating web pages

A few facts about HTML

HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language
Lets go through each of the parts of the name of HTML

HyperText: This is part of the name because HTML lets you use hyperlinks to link between pages
Markup: This is part of the name because HTML is a markup language. This means that HTML describes the structure of the page
Language: This is part of the name because, well, HTML is a programming 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
HTML elements label pieces of content such as "this is a heading," "this is a paragraph," "this is a link," etc.

A Simple HTML Document

Example Explained

The <!DOCTYPE html> declaration defines that this document is an HTML5 document
The <html> element is the root (or the element in which all other elements are contained in) element of the HTML page
The <head> element contains meta information (or general 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 th page's tab)
The <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.
The <h1> element defines a large heading
The <p> element defines a paragraph

What is an HTML Element?

An HTML element is defined by a start tag, some content, and an end tag:

The HTML element is everything from the start tag to the end tag, including attributes, and content

Web Browsers

A web browser is what you view a web page through. In fact, you are looking at this page using a web browser. A web browser's job is to display content (usually HTML) to the user. Some common examples of web browsers are Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Microsoft Edge.