Basic HTML Webpage: Introduction to HTML

20-07-2017
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Are you beginner to the web designing? Then you might want an introduction to the HTML. Here is an example of basic HTML web page. A web designer primarily must know three languages: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

HTML or Hyper Text Markup Language is used to design web pages. HTML is not a programming language but it is a markup language. The web pages are created using the HTML along with CSS for styling and JavaScript for programming.

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The HTML describes the basic structure of web page using the markup. The building blocks of the web pages are called elements. The HTML elements are represented by tags.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Example Page Title</title>
</head>

<body>
<h1>This is the example heading</h1>
<p>This is an example paragraph</p>
</body>

</head>
  • In the above example, DOCTYPE indicates the HTML document to be HTML5.
  • The whole HTML codes is placed within the tags <html> and </html>.
  • The <head> and </head> contains meta informations of the html page.
  • All the visible parts of an HTML page goes between the tags <body> and </body>.
  • The <h1> and </h1> tags are used to wirte the largest heading in the html document.
  • A paragraph in the HTML document is written within <body> and closing tag </body>.

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