HTML Guide

HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language

HTML is the primary language for building websites/web pages.

HTML is an easy-to-learn markup language.

HTML uses tags enclosed in angle brackets, like <p>, to define the content of a web page:

HTML Example

HTML uses opening and closing tags to mark a web element: In the example above, the <p> tag marks the beginning of a paragraph, and </p> marks the end of that paragraph.

By using simple HTML tags, web designers can add headings, paragraphs, text, tables, images, lists, programming code, and more to a web page (HTML document).

Web browsers (IE, Firefox, Chrome, etc.) read the HTML document, interpret the HTML tags, and display the content in a user-readable format (without showing the HTML tags):

According to the HTML standard, HTML is used to define the content of a web page.

To define visual styles (color, size, appearance, layout, etc.), CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) should be used (see the next chapter).

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