HTML is an abbreviation, it means HyperText Markup Language. So HTML is a 'Markup Language' (so it's no programming language), that means it's a language to display data. Websites are made using HTML, this website is made using HTML as well.
An HTML-page is built from a lot of tags. This is an example of an HTML-page:
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of the website</title>
</head>
<body>
Contents and text of the website.
</body>
</html>
In that example, the blue words (<html>, <head>, <title> en <body>) were the tags.
Like you see in that example, every tag looks like <tag>text</tag>.
So every tag starts with < (less-than-sign), and ends with a > (greater-than-sign).
Further, every tag should be closed by writing a slash (/) before it (for example <html> should be closed with </html>.
We're going to take a better look at the tags now:
You now know what HTML basically is (the language in which every website is written), and how it basically works. In the next lesson, you'll make an HTML-page yourself, and you'll learn what attributes are.
⇒ Go on with Lesson 2: Attributes
↵ Go back to the HTML-course
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