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S Sarumathi
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What is HTML

  • HTML was created by Tim Berners-lee in 1991

  • HTML stands for Hypertext markup language

  • It is the standard language used to create and structure web pages

  • It forms the backbone of every website, working together with CSS and JavaScript.

  • A tag is a keyword in angle brackets < > used to tell the browser how to display content

  • An HTML element is a complete unit of content on a webpage

HTML STRUCTURE

<!Doctype Html> - Tells version of html
<html>          - Html root element
<head>          - used to contain page Html meta data
<title>         - title of html page
</title>
</head>
<body>         -hold content of Html
<h1> </h1>     - Html heading tag
<p> </p>       -Html paragraph tag
</body>
</html>

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