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Introducing HTML Website Programming

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Basic HTML

People always asking about what is HTML. So this article will tell you about what HTML is.

HTML is a programming language for website builder, people also known HTML as standard markup language for Web pages. Most website on internet using this HTML for building their website, so we can say that HTML is very important right now.

HTML is abbreviation from Hyper Text Markup Language. Talking about HTML is same as we talking about markup language. There are some standard markup language about making a website.

  • HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
  • HTML describes the structure of a Web page
  • HTML consists of a series of elements
  • HTML elements tell the browser how to display the content
  • HTML elements are represented by tags
  • HTML tags label pieces of content such as "heading", "paragraph", "table", and so on
  • Browsers do not display the HTML tags, but use them to render the content of the page

Structure HTML

Structure website is build by HTML, for the basic structure we need some format for determine where is the title of website, where is the head, and the body. That's all only the standard structure of website.

To manage your website structure, some standard markup we use is.

  • 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

Below is the simple website format pages.


	❮!DOCTYPE html❯
	❮html❯
		❮!-- start Head --❯
		❮head❯
			❮title❯Page Title❮/title❯		
		❮/head❯
		❮!-- End Head --❯
		❮!-- start Body --❯
		❮body>
			❮h1>Heading One❮/h1❯
			❮p>Paragraph one❮/p❯
			❮p>Paragraph Two❮/p❯
		❮/body❯
		❮!-- End Body --❯
	❮/html❯

The HTML tags, use like element names surrounded by angle brackets. The HTML tag can be write like.

  • HTML tags normally come in pairs like ❮tag name❯ and ❮/tag name❯
  • The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag
  • The end tag is written like the start tag, but with a forward slash inserted before the tag name

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This script run on html below.

script html

Where HTML Running

HTML running on our browser program, like Safari, Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Opera, Mozilla, etc.

HTML Code or script can we write on text editor program, like notepad, notepad++, etc.

For learning HTML, we don't need any penny, it is all free for us, all the program we use for make and run HTML programming is free for use.


What is ❮!DOCTYPE❯ Declaration

We always see at HTML script have ❮!DOCTYPE❯ tag. What is ❮!DOCTYPE❯ ?

The ❮!DOCTYPE❯ declaration represents the document type. This tag helps browsers to display web pages correctly. This tag only write once, at the top of the page or before the HTML tags.

The ❮!DOCTYPE❯ declaration for HTML5. Write as ❮!DOCTYPE html❯.


Certificate of HTML

If you have interested for learn deeper about HTML, you can take the exam and get certification on w3schools website on link below.

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