About HTML
What is HTML
-Hypertext Markup Language -HTML is a markup language that web developers use to structure and describe the content of a webpage (not a programming language). -HTML consists of elements that describe different types of content: paragraphs, links, headings, images, videos, etc. -Web browsers understand HTML and render code as websites.
Anatomy of an HTML element
<p>HTML is a Markup language</p>
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Opening tag: Name of the element, wrapped in < and >
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Content: Content of the element, in this example text. But it might be another element (child element). Some elements have no content (e.g. <img>).
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Closing tag: Same as Opening tag, but with a /. When element has no content, it's omitted.
Semantic HTML tags:
<strong></strong> to replace <b></b> emphasize: (to make the words italic) <em></em> to replace <i></i>
Image tag:
<img src="some.png" alt="my picture" />
alt attribute means alternative text.