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KEYPOINTS
  • HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. 
  • Hypertext Markup Language(HTML) is like the blueprint for web pages. It tells the browser how to structure and present different types of content such as text, images, videos, and audio. 
  • In simpler terms, it's the language used to create and design web pages.
  • HTML documents are saved with the extension .html or .htm. 
  • All HTML elements are enclosed in angular brackets (<>) as tags, and keywords are used to define the structure and content of the web page.



DEFINATION
HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is the standard markup language for creating Web pages. HTML describes the structure of a Web page. It consists of a series of elements. HTML elements tell the browser how to display the content.


HTML Document Example

Example:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
  <title>Page Title</title>
</head>

<body>
  <h1>This is Heading</h1>
  <p>This is Paragraph.</p>
</body>

</html>

Try it Yourself:

  • <!DOCTYPE html>: This Document displayed in HTML5.
  • <html>: The start of an HTML document is an HTML page.
  • <head>: Provide the information for HTML pages.
  • <title>: Provide the title for the HTML pages.
  • <body>: Element is shown by all visible content on the web pages, such as headings, paragraphs, images, hyperlinks, tables, lists, etc.
  • <h1>: Element defines large heading.
  • <p>: Elements define a paragraph.

HTML Page Structure


 

  • In the above diagram, the content written inside the <body> will be shown in the browser and the content inside the <title> tag will be shown as page title.