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Susan Neema
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INTRODUCTION TO HTML

#beginners #html #webdev #tutorial

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language and it is used for creating web pages.
Let's dive in directly to a simple HTML code.

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>First Program</title> </head> <body> <h1>My First Heading</h1> <p>My first HTML paragraph.</p> </body> </html>
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You can write the above code on a simple text editor or on Notepad. Text editors you can code on include Sublime Text Editor and VS code.

Tags

Referring to the above code,

<!DOCTYPE html>
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Describes the type of document above, in our case, it is an HTML type of document.

<html></html>
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Describes the beginning and the end of an HTML document.

<head></head>
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Contains the information about the HTML page.

<title></title>
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Contains the title to our web page and is located at the browser's page tab.

<body></body>
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This is where all the contents about the web page are put.

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