Introduction To Html:
A Beginner's Approach
what is HTML?
Now we start by learning what exactly HTML is and how we can use it to create websites. HTML is powerful as it describes and defines the content and structure of web pages. HTML is the "Language Of The Web" What exactly is then HTML? HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. Let's delve deeper into the various components of HTML.
HyperText:
The term "HyperText" refers to text that can link or point to other documents on the website. i.e these texts are "Hypertext" or "Hyperlinked" to other documents on the web. For example the first-word wide Web was built from texts linked together "Hyperlinks"
Markup Language:
Now let's explore what is a markup language. As in the English language, a markup language is used to indicate different things and show what action is to be taken on text. In HTML, these markups are achieved using HTML tags.Some commonly used HTML tags include <a>, <abbr>,<li>,<ol>,<div> and <br>. for a comprehensive list of HTML tags, you can check the MDN documentation on HTML tags.