HTML Tutorial - HTML Introduction

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language, it is an easy to use language to create webpages. It is most widely used in the world today.

  • HTML is called markup language.
  • HTML has lot of Tags, that are used to show the text in an webpage.
  • HTML Tags are used in a webpage in many combination and it works. HTML Tags usually have Starting Tag and Ending Tag.
  • Usually all the Internet Browsers showup the webpage, even if there are missing Ending Tags.
  • You need to choose from the different type of Tags for your purpose to create your webpages.

An HTML Example is shown below in an text editor. Edit and click the "Execute HTML" button to view the changes.

HTML Example.

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Tags in HTML Example.

  • The document type is denoted by DOCTYPE Tag.
  • The <html>..</html> Tags are used to start and end any webpage.
  • The <head>..</head> and <body>..</body> Tags are used in between the html Tags.
  • The <title>..</title> Tags are present in the head Tag. To describe the title of the document.
  • The <body>..</body> are the Tags that will contain all the different type of Tags that are available in HTML. This is the place where all the content of the webpage is written.

There are many different HTML Tags that will be explained as we go ahead with the Tutorial. HTML Tags are the building blocks of any webpage.