What is HTML?

• HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
• HTML is the standard markup language for creating Web pages
• HTML describes the structure of a Web page
• HTML consists of a series of elements
• HTML elements tell the browser how to display the content
• HTML elements label pieces of content such as “this is a heading”, “this is a paragraph”, “this is a link”, etc.

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A Simple HTML Document

Example

My First Heading

My first paragraph.

Example Explained

• The  declaration defines that this document is an HTML5 document
• The  element is the root element of an HTML page
• The  element contains meta information about the HTML page
• The  element specifies a title for the HTML page (which is shown in the browser’s title bar or in the page’s tab)
• The  element defines the document’s body, and is a container for all the visible contents, such as headings, paragraphs, images, hyperlinks, tables, lists, etc.
• The 
   element defines a large heading
• The 
   element defines a paragraph
• What is an HTML Element?
• An HTML element is defined by a start tag, some content, and an end tag:
•  Content goes here… 
• The HTML element is everything from the start tag to the end tag:

• My First Heading

• My first paragraph.

Start tag	Element content	End tag
	My First Heading
	My first paragraph.
	none	none

Note: Some HTML elements have no content (like the
element). These elements are called empty ele

Web Browsers

The purpose of a web browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari) is to read HTML documents and display them correctly.

A browser does not display the HTML tags, but uses them to determine how to display the document: