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Introduction of HTML

Learn HTML, it is a markup language which is used for creating Web Pages.  HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. It was developed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991. It is the official language of World Wide Web for developing web pages.  It is descendant of SGML i.e., standard generalized markup language.  It is used to define the structure of the web page.

 In HTML, one can create web pages using the collection of tags  HTML tags are surrounded by angular bracket(< >).  The extension of the HTML file is .htm or html. 

Types of tags
1. Container tag
2. Empty tag

Container tag
It has both starting and ending tag
Example
 <b></b>

Empty Tag
It has only starting tag.
Example
<br>,<em>,<hr>

Basic Structure of HTML

<html>
<head>
<title>
My first page
</title>
</head>
<body>
Hello
</body>
</html>

Definition of Basic Structure Tags


<HTML></HTML>
<HTML> tells the browser, that from here html’s coding has started. It is a container tag.

</html> tells the browser that html document has been finished.
<head></head>
It displays the header of the document.
<title></title>
It displays the title of the web page. It is used inside the <head> </head> tag.
<body></body>
It defines the document body.  It displays text, images, tables, list, hyperlinks , forms etc. in it.


Software Requirement for Creating Web Pages

  •        Notepad
  •        Any browser like Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome etc.
                                                                    

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