Scribd
Upload
50 views

HTML

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the standard markup language used to create web pages. HTML uses tags to provide structure and layout to web pages. Some basic HTML tags include <html> to define an HTML document, <head> for metadata, <title> for the page title, <body> for content, and <h1>-<h6> for headings. Other common tags are <p> for paragraphs, <br> for line breaks, <hr> for thematic breaks, and <!-- --> for comments.

Uploaded by

Tariq Al Hariri
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
Available Formats
Download as ODT, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
50 views

HTML

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the standard markup language used to create web pages. HTML uses tags to provide structure and layout to web pages. Some basic HTML tags include <html> to define an HTML document, <head> for metadata, <title> for the page title, <body> for content, and <h1>-<h6> for headings. Other common tags are <p> for paragraphs, <br> for line breaks, <hr> for thematic breaks, and <!-- --> for comments.

Uploaded by

Tariq Al Hariri
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
Available Formats
Download as ODT, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 5

What is HTML? What is tag? What are the basic HTML tags and how to use them?

• HTML:

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for creating web pages
and web applications. With Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript, it forms a triad of
cornerstone technologies for the World Wide Web.

Web browsers receive HTML documents from a web server or from local storage and render the
documents into multimedia web pages. HTML describes the structure of a web page
semantically and originally included cues for the appearance of the document.

• HTML tag
An HTML tag is commonly defined as a set of characters constituting a formatted command for
a Web page. At the core of HTML, tags provide the directions or recipes for the visual content
that one sees on the Web.

• The Basic HTML tags and how to use them>


1. <!DOCTYPE> Defines the document type
The <!DOCTYPE> declaration must be the very first thing in your HTML document, before
the <html> tag.
The <!DOCTYPE> declaration is not an HTML tag; it is an instruction to the web browser
about what version of HTML the page is written in.

In HTML 4.01, the <!DOCTYPE> declaration refers to a DTD, because HTML 4.01 was
based on SGML. The DTD specifies the rules for the markup language, so that the browsers
render the content correctly.
HTML5 is not based on SGML, and therefore does not require a reference to a DTD.

Example:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of the document</title>
</head>

<body>
The content of the document......
</body>

</html>

2. HTML <html> Tag


The <html> tag tells the browser that this is an HTML document.
The <html> tag represents the root of an HTML document.
The <html> tag is the container for all other HTML elements (except for the <!DOCTYPE>
tag).

Eample:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of the document</title>
</head>

<body>
The content of the document......
</body>

</html>

3. HTML <head> Tag


The <head> element is a container for all the head elements.
The <head> element can include a title for the document, scripts, styles, meta information,
and more.
The following elements can go inside the <head> element:
<title> (this element is required in an HTML document)
<style>
<base>
<link>
<meta>
<script>
<noscript>
Example:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of the document</title>
</head>
<body>
The content of the document......
</body>
</html>

4. HTML <title> Tag


The <title> tag is required in all HTML documents and it defines the title of the document.
The <title> element:
defines a title in the browser toolbar
provides a title for the page when it is added to favorites
displays a title for the page in search-engine results

Example:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML Reference</title>
</head>
<body>
The content of the document......
</body>
</html>
5. HTML <body> Tag
The <body> tag defines the document's body.
The <body> element contains all the contents of an HTML document, such as text,
hyperlinks, images, tables, lists, etc.
Example:
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of the document</title>
</head>
<body>
The content of the document......
</body>
</html>

6. HTML <h1> to <h6> Tags


The <h1> to <h6> tags are used to define HTML headings.
<h1> defines the most important heading. <h6> defines the least important heading.
Example:
<h1>This is heading 1</h1>
<h2>This is heading 2</h2>
<h3>This is heading 3</h3>
<h4>This is heading 4</h4>
<h5>This is heading 5</h5>
<h6>This is heading 6</h6>
7. HTML <p> Tag
The <p> tag defines a paragraph.
Browsers automatically add some space (margin) before and after each <p> element. The
margins can be modified with CSS (with the margin properties).

Example:
<p>This is some text in a paragraph.</p>

8. HTML <br> Tag


The <br> tag inserts a single line break.
The <br> tag is an empty tag which means that it has no end tag.
Example:
This text contains<br>a line break.

9. HTML <hr> Tag


The <hr> tag defines a thematic break in an HTML page (e.g. a shift of topic).
The <hr> element is used to separate content (or define a change) in an HTML page.
Example:
<h1>HTML</h1>
<p>HTML is a language for describing web pages.....</p>
<hr>
<h1>CSS</h1>
<p>CSS defines how to display HTML elements.....</p>

10. HTML <!--...--> Tag


The comment tag is used to insert comments in the source code. Comments are not
displayed in the browsers.
You can use comments to explain your code, which can help you when you edit the source
code at a later date. This is especially useful if you have a lot of code.

Example:
<!--This is a comment. Comments are not displayed in the browser-->
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>

You might also like