Overview of HTML

What is HTML?

HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. It's the standard markup language for Web pages, describe the structure of a webpage and tell browsers how to display the page.

Nowadays, a modern web design structure is 

• HTML: Structure

• CSS: Presentation

• JavaScript: Behavior

• PHP or similar: Backend

A basic HTML element has a start tag, content and an end tag

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Creating Your First HTML Page

​You can start writing your HTML code in any text editor, such as NotePad. 

Try writing some first lines of code by copying the image below:

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Save what you wrote into your file system as the .html or .htm file. Here I named my file newpage.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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To open and view the file, right click the file and choose "Open with...". Then pick a web browser to display it

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Here is how it should look when you open it. And your first simple webpage is done

 

 

 

 

 

 

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