== INTRODUCTION TO HTML ==

What is HTML?

HTML is a language for describing web pages.

   HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
   HTML is not a programming language, it is a markup language
   A markup language is a set of markup tags
   HTML uses markup tags to describe web pages

HTML Tags

HTML markup tags are usually called HTML tags

   HTML tags are keywords surrounded by angle brackets like <html>
   HTML tags normally come in pairs like  and 
   The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag
   Start and end tags are also called opening tags and closing tags

HTML Documents = Web Pages

   HTML documents describe web pages
   HTML documents contain HTML tags and plain text
   HTML documents are also called web pages

The purpose of a web browser (like Internet Explorer or Firefox) is to read HTML documents and display them as web pages. The browser does not display the HTML tags, but uses the tags to interpret the content of the page: <html> <body>

My First Heading

My first paragraph.

</body> </html> Example Explained

   The text between <html> and </html> describes the web page
   The text between <body> and </body> is the visible page content

The text between

and

is displayed as a heading The text between

and

is displayed as a paragraph

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