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Day 1:Introduction to HTML Learning

What is HTML

  • HTML is stands for hypertext markup language.
  • It is to create structure the content of webpage.
  • It consists of series of element.
  • It contains a tags head,body,title.
  • Now we uses html5 version.
  • Html uses browser to display the output.
  • It contains the meta data about the page.

What is markup language

A markup language is a language used to structure, format, and display content on webpages or documents using special tags.

Why markup language

Because tags β€œmark up” the text with information about structure and formatting.

Features of markup language

  • Uses tags.
  • Easy to read.
  • Not a programming language.
  • Used for webpage structure.

What is element

An HTML element is a fundamental building block of a webpage that tells a web browser how to structure and interpret a specific piece of content. It typically consists of a start tag, content, and an end tag.

  • opening tag.
  • content.
  • closing tag.

Type of CSS

  • Inline CSS:

CSS is written directly inside the HTML tag using the style attribute.

<h1 style="color:red;">Hello</h1>
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  • Internal CSS:

CSS is written inside the tag within the HTML file.

<head>
<style>
p{
  color: blue;
}
</style>
</head>
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  • External CSS:

CSS is written in a separate .css file and linked to HTML.

CSS

p{
  color: green;
}
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Difference between tags and element

The primary difference is that a tag is a markup command used to define the start or end of a structure, while an element is the complete unit consisting of those tags and the content inside them

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