Basics of HTML5
What is HTML?
HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language, It consists of a series of element used to describe a web page. Basically, it tells the browser how to display the data.
HTML elements are represented by tags
For example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>My First Heading</h1>
<p>My first paragraph.</p>
</body>
</html>
HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language, It consists of a series of element used to describe a web page. Basically, it tells the browser how to display the data.
HTML Page Structure
Below is a visualization of an HTML page structure:
HTML tags are element names surrounded by angle brackets:
<tagname>content goes here...</tagname>
HTML elements are represented by tags
For example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>My First Heading</h1>
<p>My first paragraph.</p>
</body>
</html>
- The
<!DOCTYPE html>declaration defines this document to be HTML5 - The
<html>element is the root element of an HTML page - The
<head>element contains meta information about the document - The
<title>element specifies a title for the document - The
<body>element contains the visible page content - The
<h1>element defines a large heading - The
<p>element defines a paragraph
The <!DOCTYPE> Declaration
The
<!DOCTYPE> declaration represents the document type, and helps browsers to display web pages correctly.
It must only appear once, at the top of the page (before any HTML tags).
The
<!DOCTYPE> declaration is not case sensitive.
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