HTML¶
In this section, you will learn the basics of the HTML language. This course section includes many of the most commonly-used tags and instructions on inserting an image into a webpage.
HTML or Hyper Text Markup Language is a language used to describe web pages.
- HTML is not a programming language but rather a markup language.
- Markup languages use markup tags to convey meaning.
- HTML documents use markup tags to describe web pages.
Web browsers read HTML documents by interpreting the markup tags and displaying the results in the browser.
HTML Markup Tags
- HTML tags are keywords surrounded by angled brackets (e.g. <html>)
- HTML tags usually come in pairs, such as <html> and </html>
- The first tag is called the start tag while second tag is called the end tag.