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Introduction

What is HTML?

HTML is the standard markup language for creating Web pages.

  • HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language

  • HTML describes the structure of Web pages using markup

  • HTML elements are the building blocks of HTML pages

  • HTML elements are represented by tags

  • HTML tags label pieces of content such as "heading", "paragraph", "table", and so on

  • 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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