An Easy Introduction to HTML Markup Language | CoderGuy

Hello everyone, welcome to CoderGuy (A free platform to learn different programming languages) I am Sadanand, In today's article, I will introduce you with a very simple and easy to learn markup language. 

Yes! you read it right, HTML is not a programming language it is a markup language.

I don't know the difference between markup language, programming language, and scripting language.

Introduction to HTML

  HTML refers to hypertext markup language. It is the language used to develop web pages. It is the language interpreted by a browser. It is used to create electronic documents that are displayed on the World Wide Web.

It was first developed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990.

HTML is a markup language that was developed from a more complex language known as SGML.

SGML refers to Standard Generalized Markup Language.

HTML is not a case sensitive language that means tags defined in lowercase or uppercase results in the same output.

Introduction to HTML markup language
An Easy Introduction to HTML Markup Language


Creating an HTML page


Things required to create an HTML page.
i) An HTML editor and
ii) A web browser
iii) A laptop or desktop (Of course you need it)

HTML Editor:- A web page can be easily created using any simple text editor. 
       For example- Notepad and WordPad (Preinstalled on windows)
But I will recommend to use Notepad++, atom or sublime text editor.

Web browser:- To see or view the HTML document we use the web browser.
     For example-  Internet Explorer (IE), Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, etc.
I will recommend using Google Chrome.


What are HTML tags?


HTML tags are instructions embedded within an HTML web page that defines the browser to identify an element so that browser realizes how to display its contents.

Tags are always written within angle brackets '<>'.
For example: <html>

There are two types of tags:-
i) Container tags or Paired tags
ii) Empty tags or Singular tags or Unpaired tags

i) Container tags or Paired tags:– These tags require an ending tag to display the text.
For example:- <b> Hello </b>
 This will display Hello in bold.

ii) Empty tags or Singular tags or Unpaired tags:- These tags do not require ending tags to display the text.
For example: <br> 
 This will insert a blank line after the text.


What are the HTML attributes?

It is the properties of HTML tags that define the height, color, width, font, etc of the HTML tag.
For example: <h1 style='color:blue'>Hello</h1>
This will write Hello in blue color.

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