What is HTML?
HTML means Hyper Text Markup Language. It is not considered as programming language since programming language is usually refers to a high-level languages like BASIC, C, C++, COBOL, FORTRAN, Ada, Pascal wherein HTML does not belong to these.
HTML is used for website creation wherein anyone can access the information if you are connected to the internet. HTML is being maintained by W3C and make revisions based on the growing demand in the world of internet. Currrently, we have a new revision and that is HTML 5.
Since, we mentioned that HTML is not a programming language, it is called the markup language. A markup language is a set of symbols for describing the identity of pieces of documents ( e.i. heading, body, footer, etc...). These are also called the markup tags wherein HTML used this to described a webpages.
What is Markup Tags?
Markup tags is the fundamental characteristics of HTML. It is also called HTML tags. It is a command placed between the angle brackets < ( left bracket), > (right bracket). It normally come in pairs like <h1> and </h2>. This is what it means:
- <h1> is called the start tag or the first tag. Also called the opening tag.
- </h1> is called the end tag or the second tag. Also called the closing tag.
I had mentioned about a webpages on my previous post. Well, a webpages is also called an HTML document which consists of HTML tags and plain text. Just always remember that. If you have plan to take the certification, that concept will expect to exist in your exams.
Before I end up this post, I will give you the basic parts of the webpage. These are:
- <html>, </html> ---> the text between these tags describes the webpage.
- <h1>, </h1> ---> the text between these tags describes the heading.
- <body>, </body>---> the text between these tags describes the main content of the webpage.
- <p>, </p> ---> the text between these tags describes every paragraph which is also part of the visible content of the webpage.
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