HTML
HTML stands for Hyper Text markup language. It is the standard markuip language for web pages. With HTML we can create our own websites. HTML describes the structure/layout of a web page.HTML consists of a series of elements and also tell the browser how to display the content.
What is a html element?
A html element is defined by a start tag,content and an end tag:
<tagname> Content </tagname>
following Simple HTML document,
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang=”en”>
<head>
<title>New Web Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>
Hello Dude, This is heading element.
</h1>
<p>Paragraph Element: My First Paragraph</p>
</body>
</html>
Explaination of above example.
- !Doctype html: It defines that the document is a HTML5 document.
- html element is the root element of a HTML/web pages. Its End element html that is used in last of HTML/web pages.
- head element contains meta information about the web page or link of javascript/CSS files etc.
- title element defines the title of web page that is shown in browser’s title bar or in particular tab’s of browser.
- body element is main element of web page because it defines the doucment’s/page’s body. It is a container for all visible contents,such as headings,paragraphs,hyperlinks,lists(Ordered list & unordered lists),images etc.
- h1 element defines a large heading
- p element defines a paragraph
Web Browsers
Web browsers are use to read the html documents and display them correctly. A browser doesn’t display the html tags,according to html tags show in layout on browsers.
Note: Only the content inside the <body> section (the white area above) will be displayed in a browser.