HTML stands for Hyper Text Mark up Language and it provides some of the building blocks for all websites that are important for structuring content on the web. HTML is used by the browser to manipulate text, images and other content to display on the web.
HTML can most easily be broken down into four pillars.
HTML is broken down into elements, which are the building blocks of HTML. Each element is made up of a start tag, content and an end tag.
Notice how each element has an opening tag e.g <html> and a closing tag e.g </html>. The closing tag is the same as the opening tag, just with a / in front of it.
HTML uses tags to strcture information, common tags include:
<h1> - <h6>: Headings
<p>: Paragraph
<a>: Anchor (link)
<img>: Image
<div>: Division
<ul>: Unordered List
<ol>: Ordered List
<li>: List Item
<button>: Button
Everything (except the doctype) goes inside the html element. The head element is where you will put your page title (the page name that the user will see in the browser tab). The body element is where you will put all the content that you want to display on the page.
As with most things, the best way to learn to code is to try for yourself!
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