Introduction to HTML

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What's HTML?

  • HTML  = Hyper Text Markup Language.
     
  • It's the standard markup language for creating Web pages
     
  • It's like the "Skeleton" of a web page hence it defines the
    structure of the web page.
     
  • HTML - - > consists of a series of elements used to
    label pieces of content such as "a paragraph,"an image", "this is a link", etc

Learn more about HTML here 

HTML Structure

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

    <head>
    	<!-- Meta-data goes here -->
    </head>
    
    <body>
    	<!-- Content of the page goes here -->
    </body>
    
</html>

HTML Structure

<!DOCTYPE html>
  • This line tells the browser that we are using HTML5.
  • HTML5 is the fifth version of HTML which consists of many newer syntactic features.

HTML Structure

<html>
  • This is the root/parent element of an HTML page.
  • It houses all other HTML elements

HTML Structure

<head>
  • This element contains meta-data about the HTML page - information that determines how the webpage will look like.

Learn more about the Head element here

HTML Structure

<body>
  • This is a container for all the visible contents of the webpage, such as headings, paragraphs, images, hyperlinks, videos, lists, etc.

An HTML Element

<starttag> Content goes here </endtag>

An HTML element is defined by a start/opening tag, some content, and an end/closing tag:

What's a Tag?

HTML tags are the keywords on a web page that define how your web browser must format and display your web page.

Examples

<h1> This is a Heading Element </h1>

<p> This is a Paragraph element </p>

Empty Elements

<br> 
<!-- Used to create a new line -->

<hr> 
<!-- Used to create a horizontal 
line on the webpage -->
  • Empty elements are elements with no content therefore they don't have a closing tag.

Click here for a list of empty elements

Title Element

<title> Hello World </title>
  • This element defines the name of our webpage that shows up as the tab name when opened in a browser.

Paragraph Element

<p> Hello World </p>
  • This element is used to add paragraphs in your web page

Heading Element

<h1> Heading Level 1 </h1> <!-- The Biggest -->

<h2> Heading Level 2 </h2>

<h3> Heading Level 3 </h3>

<h4> Heading Level 4 </h4>

<h5> Heading Level 5 </h5>

<h6> Heading Level 6 </h6> <!-- The Smallest -->

Used to represent headings on a webpage

Lists In HTML

Ordered Lists

<ol>

    <li> Prepare the frying pan </li>
    <li> Pour some oil on the frying pan </li>
    <li> Whisk the eggs and pour on the pan </li>
    <li> Fry the omlete and until ready </li>
    <li> Serve the omlete on the plata </li>
    
</ol>
  • A Cooking Process
  • List of best Animations

Lists In HTML

Unordered List

<ul>

    <li> Play with Messi and Ronald </li>
    <li> Be the president  </li>
    <li> Go to heaven </li>
    <li> Have a holiday in Silicon valley </li>
    <li> Meet Elon Musk at Space X </li>
    
</ul>
  • List of Ingredients
  • Bucket list
  • Shopping list

HTML Attributes

<img src="image.jpg" alt="Image">

HTML attributes provide additional information about HTML elements.

They are used to modify the behavior or appearance of an element.

Placed inside the opening tag of an HTML element and consist of a name and a value.

Introduction to HTML

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