HTML Introduction 📌

HTML is the standard markup language. It looks like a skeleton for a website.

A simple HTML structure


<!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
    <head>
        <title>Page title</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1>My first heading</h1>
        <p>My first paragraph</p>
    </body>
    </html>

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Let's talk about previous example

<!DOCTYPE html> This is used to define that website is created with HTML5.
<html> This is the root element.
<head> This tag is used for add about website metadata and link stylesheet.
<title> This tag is used to add website title.
<body> We use this tag to add visible contents like images, paragraphs, hyperlinks, lists, tables, etc
<h1> Element defines a large heading.
<p> Element defines a paragraph.

Let's talk about How HTML Work & How we write.

HTML stands for hypertext markup language. When using HTML, we should keep in mind that every HTML element requires an opening & closing bracket. But there are some exceptions, such as [<br>, <hr>, <img>, <link>] etc. Tags like this are self-closing.

This tag should be started with < this, then followed by your element argument, followed by> let's write it together "<html> " This is an opening tag. This tag should now be closed using the "/" symbol. What's the best way to do it? After the first bracket, we need to add "/" ,then followed by your element argument, followed by> let's write it together </html> This is the closing tag.

Let's discuss about the HTML history

1989 - Tim Berners-Lee invented www
1991 - Tim Berners-Lee invented HTML
1995 - HTML Working Group defined HTML 2.0
1997 - W3C Recommendation: HTML 3.2
1999 - W3C Recommendation: HTML 4.01
2000 - W3C Recommendation: XHTML 1.0
2008 - W3C HTML5 First Public Draft
2016 - W3C Candidate Recommendation: HTML 5.1