What is HTML?
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In becoming a good web developer, I am constantly reviewing the basics of web development over and over again.
I wrote this article to briefly explain what HTML is.
What is HTML?
HTML is the language used to create the web pages you visit every day. It provides a logical structure for the content on a web page.
HTML Document Structure
The <head> tag is used to contain specific information about a web page, often referred to as metadata (title, links to CSS or JS files).
The <body> tag defines the document’s body. The <body> element contains all the contents of an HTML document, such as text, hyperlinks, images, tables, lists, etc. The body element contains the content that is viewable on a web page.
HyperText Markup Language
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The acronym “HTML” stands for HyperText Markup Language.
A markup language is a computer language that defines the structure and presentation of raw text. Markup languages work by surrounding raw text with information the computer can interpret.
Hypertext is a word or words that contain a link to a website. An example of hypertext is the word “Instagram” that links to the Instagram page. Also known as “hyperlinks”. You have probably clicked on many, many hyperlinks on your path to this page.
If you forget just remember:
“HTML is the skeleton of a webpage. It provides a logical structure for the content on a web page”.
