HTML guide to website construction
May 27, 2021 Website construction guide
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HTML guide
HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language
HTML is the primary language for building websites/web production.
HTML is an easy-to-learn markup language.
HTML defines the content of a Web page using tags like the one in parentheses:
HTML instance
<body>
<h1>My First Heading</h1>
<p>My first paragraph.</p>
</body>
</html>
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HTML uses the start and end tags to mark a page element: in the example above, the label marks the beginning of a paragraph and the end of the paragraph.
By using simple HTML tags, web designers can add titles, paragraphs, text, tables, pictures, lists, programming code, etc. to a web page (HTML document).
Web browsers (IE browsers, Firefox, Chrome, etc.) read HTML documents, interpret HTML tags, and display the correct user-readable content (HTML tags are not displayed):
Html can be used to define the content of a Web page, according to HTML standards. / p>
To define visual styles (color, size, appearance, layout, etc.), you should use CSS (cascade style sheets) (see next chapter).
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