HTML
In this article we are going to learn about html, what is html and what does it stands for also what is used for and how does html look like.
What is HTML?
HTML is a standard markup language that gives web pages structure and it can be displayed on browsers.
What is HTML in full?
HT stands for HyperText, M for Markup and L for Language. So in full is HyperText Markup Language.
What does HTML used for?
HTML is used in website development to give web pages structure and it helps website developers to display information on browsers as the browser understands html language and we have HTML5.
How to write or code HTML?
HTML has its rules to be displayed on browsers. First of all to code HTML we need text editor and we must save each web page we created as filename.html.
We are going to use notepad++ as our text editor so, if you do not have it just download it and install it either on your mobile phone, laptop or desktop, can be any of them.
So let get started, open your notepad++ and copy and paste the code below. Save your file (web page) as tutorial.html and after saving our file let us run it on browser by double clicking on it.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Html tutorial</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This is paragraph.</p>
</body>
</html>
We should have the following results and only texts Html tutorial on the top of the browser as web page title and This is paragraph are visible on the browser.
The browser displayed only text not tags, <title><title> <p></p> are html tags and <title> is title opening tag while </title> is title closing tag also, <p> is paragraph opening tag while </p> is paragraph closing tag. So, we should always have opening and closing tag. We can also change the color of paragraph text using css.