HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language)

What is HTML? HTML is the standard language used to create web pages. It provides the structure for a webpage by using tags that tell the browser how to display content like text, images, videos, and links. HTML forms the skeleton of a webpage, allowing us to structure information on the web.

Why is HTML important? HTML is the foundation of all websites. Every webpage we see is built using HTML or a variant of it. It:

Ensures that content on the web is structured and presented correctly.
Allows developers to create interactive and user-friendly web pages.
Works in conjunction with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) for styling and JavaScript for interactivity.

Basic Structure of an HTML Document, Here’s a simple HTML document:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>My First Webpage</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Welcome to my webpage</h1>
    <p>This is a paragraph of text.</p>
  </body>
</html>

<!DOCTYPE html>: Declares the document as an HTML5 document.
<html>: The root element that wraps all other elements.
<head>: Contains meta-information like the page title and links to external resources (CSS files, JavaScript files).
<body>: Contains the actual content that will be displayed on the webpage, like text, images, etc.

Common HTML Tags

<h1> to <h6>: Heading tags, with <h1> being the largest and most important.
<p>: Paragraph tag for blocks of text.
<a>: Anchor tag for links.
<img>: Used to display images.