

Welcome to our newest series where we’ll be helping you learn and stay productive at home. With our first series, we’re focusing on getting to know HTML.
We’ll be covering what it is, what it stands for, what tags are, the types of elements and what attributes are.
A few years after the release of HTML 2.0, Dave Raggett introduced a draft on HTML 3.0. The draft included new and improved features of HTML, which gave webmasters more powerful characteristics when designing the web pages.
Unfortunately, these powerful new features slowed down the web browser.
Published in 2012, HTML 5 is somewhat an extended version of HTML 4.01. This version is currently used worldwide by developers.
HTML stands for Hyper Text (Hypertext) Markup Language.
Tags are elements used in HTML and are surrounded by angle brackets. The structure looks like this:
Structure:
<tag>content</tag>
Actual code:
<p>This is a paragraph.<p>
Tags come in pairs and must always begin with a “start tag” and must be “closed” with an “end tag” which includes a forward dash (/).
An empty element doesn’t include content.
Example: Line Break or <br/>
A line break can be added between two elements to place them on separate lines.
All elements can have attributes which provide additional information about the element. The structure looks like the following:
name=”value”
Example:
<p class=”intro”>This is a paragraph.</p>
Class is the attribute name and “intro” is the value of that attribute.
Example:
Here are a few attributes used with elements:
Attributes are always added within the “start tag”.
In conclusion, HTML is the basic language anyone can start with and is always paired with CSS (for styling) and JavaScript (to make the website dynamic).
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