{"id":49,"date":"2022-03-19T09:08:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T09:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.brightwhiz.com\/?post_type=topic&p=49"},"modified":"2022-03-19T09:27:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T09:27:54","slug":"html-overview","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"http:\/\/local.tutorials\/topic\/html-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"HTML – Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
HTML stands for H<\/strong>yperT<\/strong>ext M<\/strong>arkup L<\/strong>anguage. It is the most widely used language and is most commonly to write Web Pages. in this day and age, every designer and developer whether a systems developer or web developer must learn this language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n HTML is the standard markup language for creating web pages. It is used to describe the structure of a web page using a collection of elements known as tags. These elements are used to tell the browser how to render the content of a web page or HTML document.<\/p>\n\n\n\n HTML elements contain one or two tags. They are enclosed within angle braces like this Let’s break down the above example tags.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So generally an HTML document consists of the enclosing element that defines the document, the header section, and the body section as seen here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One typically uses a web browser such as Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc. to read HTML documents and render them correctly to the viewer. A web browser uses HTML tags to determine how to display the document.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this HTML tutorial, we will be following the latest HTML5 standard.<\/p>\n\n\n\nA Basic HTML Document<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n <head>\n <title>This is document title<\/title>\n <\/head>\t\n <body>\n <h1>A Simple heading<\/h1>\n <p>Hello World paragraph!<\/p>\n <\/body>\t\n<\/html><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
The Above Example Explained<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
<HTML tag><\/code> which is the actual tag. Some tags are standalone while others require a corresponding closing tag like this opening tag
<html><\/code> and closing tag
<\/html><\/code>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<!DOCTYPE html><\/code> declaration defines the document type (HTML) and HTML version (HTML5)<\/li>
<html><\/code> element is the root element of a HTML document<\/li>
<head><\/code> element represents the document header and contains meta information about the HTML page<\/li>
<title><\/code> element specifies a title for the web page. This is shown in the browser’s title bar or in the web page’s tab<\/li>
<body><\/code> element defines the document’s body, which is the primary container for all the visible content<\/li>
<h1><\/code> element defines heading, in this case a level 1 or largest heading<\/li>
<p><\/code> element defines a paragraph<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
<html>\n <head>\n The content here is not displayed in the browser but is used as meta information\n <\/head>\t\n <body>\n The content that appears here is usually what is displayed in the browser\n <\/body>\t\n<\/html><\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Web Browser<\/h2>\n\n\n\n