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INTRODUCTION TO HTML

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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

HTML elements label pieces of content such as

"this is a heading", "this is a paragraph", "this is a
link", etc.

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The <!DOCTYPE html> declaration defines that this document is an HTML5
document

The <html> element is the root element of an HTML page

The <head> 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 <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

Closing tag

Closing tag

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

<tagname> Content goes here... </tagname>
The HTML element is everything from the start tag to the end tag:

<h1>My First Heading</h1>
<p>My first paragraph.</p

Some HTML elements have no content (like the <br> element). These elements are called empty elements.
Empty elements do not have an end tag!

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Web Browsers
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:

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HTML Page Structure

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HTML History

Year

Version

1989

Tim Berners-Lee invented www

1991

Tim Berners-Lee invented HTML

1993

Dave Raggett drafted HTML+

1995

HTML Working Group defined HTML 2.0

1997

W3C Recommendation: HTML 3.2

1999

W3C Recommendation: HTML 4.01

2000

W3C Recommendation: XHTML 1.0

2008

WHATWG HTML5 First Public Draft

2012

WHATWG HTML5 Living Standard

2014

W3C Recommendation: HTML5

2016

W3C Candidate Recommendation: HTML 5.1

2017

W3C Recommendation: HTML5.1 2nd Edition

2017

W3C Recommendation: HTML5.2

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