INTRODUCTION TO HTML

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language

A markup language is a set of markup tags and HTML documents are described by HTML tags

Each HTML tag describes different document content

HTML Tags – these are the hidden keywords within a web page that defines how the browser must format and display the content.

HTML tags are made up of the following: Less than sign, a Character and a Greater than sign.

For example

<h1>

The characters inside the angled brackets indicate the tags purpose

Tags are of two types

• Opening Tag/start tag
• Closing tag/end tag

The above example is an opening tag of a heading a closing tag has a forward slash after the < symbol

HTML Elements – These are written with a start tag, an end tag and with the content in between

For example

<h1> Introduction to HTML </h1>

All of the above statement is an element.

The tools that you will need to learn HTML is a computer with a web browser such as google chrome, Firefox, internet explorer among others and a text editor such as Notepad, (Notepad++) which comes with Windows, or TextEdit, which comes with Macs.