INTRODUCTION TO HTML

Susan Neema — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 18:02:13 +0000

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>

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>

Describes the type of document above, in our case, it is an HTML type of document.

<html></html>

Describes the beginning and the end of an HTML document.

<head></head>

Contains the information about the HTML page.

<title></title>

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

<body></body>

This is where all the contents about the web page are put.