An intro into the world of HTML for beginners

HTML basics for Beginners

HTML is a type of language used to make webpages. HTML gives content structure and meaning by defining the content as, for example, headings, paragraphs, or images.

Elements

Elements are designators that define the contents and structure of a webpage, for example headings, paragraphs, images, links. Elements are surrounded by less than < and greater than > angle brackets. For example <h1> is identified as a heading.

Tags

The use of greater than and less than angle brackets create what is known as a tag. Tags most commonly occur in pairs of opening and closing tags. A closing tag has a backslash after the opening angle bracket. For example <h1> ... </h1>. Most elements recquire an open and closing tag, however some just require an opening tag.

Attributes

Attributes are properties used to provide additional information about an element. The most common attributes include the id attribute, which identifies an element; the class attribute, which classifies an element; the src attribute, which specifies a source for embeddable content; and the href attribute, which provides a hyperlink reference to a linked resource. For example <a href="http://www.google.com/">Google</a>, the href attribute provides a link to google.com

HTML document structure

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