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Introduction
What is HTML?
HTML is the standard markup language for creating Web pages.
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HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
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HTML describes the structure of Web pages using markup
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HTML elements are the building blocks of HTML pages
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HTML elements are represented by tags
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HTML tags label pieces of content such as "heading", "paragraph", "table", and so on
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Browsers do not display the HTML tags, but use them to render the content of the page
HTML Page Structure
Below is a visualization of an HTML page structure:
<html><head>
<title>Page title</title>
</head><body>
<h1>This is a heading</h1>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
<p>This is another paragraph.</p>
</body></html>
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