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- 📅 Date :: 12-06-2025
- 🏷️ Tags :: web-dev
Notes
What is HTML?
- HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language.
- It defines the content and structure of a webpage.
- A website can be created using only an HTML file (unlike CSS and JavaScript).
How Web Browsers Render Websites
- Browsers (Chrome, Safari, Brave, etc.) take HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files and render them into a webpage.
- However, a website cannot be created using only CSS or JavaScript—HTML is essential.
Breaking Down HTML
Hypertext
- Hypertext refers to text that links to other documents (hyperlinks).
- Hyperlinks are fundamental to how HTML websites work.
- Example: The first website (created by Tim Berners-Lee) was filled with blue hyperlinks.
Markup Language
- A markup language is a way to define a document’s structure using special tags.
- Similar to how quotes indicate a quotation in English, markup uses HTML tags to format content.
- Example: Editors use squiggly lines for bold and straight lines for underlining.
HTML Tags
- HTML tags are used to format and structure a webpage.
- Early HTML had only a few tags, but today there are many.
- Most commonly used tags:
- Headings:
<h1>to<h6> - Paragraph:
<p>
- Headings: