HTML
Full form of HTML is hypertext markup language. It is used to create web pages. HTML consists of series of tags.
HTML tags defines the format of any webpage. How will show its contents, color, font size etc. HTML tags contains three main parts.
Opening tag, Contents and Closing tag
Each HTML tag has different properties and use. These tags is always written in < > bracket. Few tags in HTML does not require to close it with close tag.
In HTML page first tag is HTML tag. HTML page starts with HTML start tag and end with HTML close tag.
Syntax
<tag> content </tag>
Few HTML Tags are given below
<H1> to <H6> For Headings
<P> For Paragraph
<CENTER> For Alignment
<BR> For Break Line
<B> For Bold
<I> For Italics
<U> For Underline
<FONT> For Font setting
Structure of HTML document
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>
</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
</BODY>
</HTML>
The text editor used to write HTML code is Notepad which is available in all systems in which installed windows.
We can see the source code of HTML page by right click on web page under view source code option. HTML tag is not case sensitive. We can write it in small as well as capital letter.
Tags are also known as elements. Elements are of following types.
1. Container tags/elements
2. Empty tags/elements
Tags which include both open and close are known as Container tags.
For example <HTML> </HTML>
Tags which do need to close are known as empty tags.
For example <BR>
First HTML Example
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE> Page Title </TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<H1> This is my first heading of my page </H1>
<P> This is my first paragraph. </P>
</BODY>
</HTML>
In above example
<HTML> </HTML> - Main tag of page
<HEAD> </HEAD> - It contains the information about page.
<TITLE> </TITLE> - It contains the title of the page.
<BODY> </BODY> - It contains all contents of page which will display on web page.
<H1> </H1> - It contains heading.
<P> </P> - It contains paragraph.
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