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This document provides an overview of HTML, including: 1. HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language and is used to write web pages through tags that structure text. 2. HTML was originally developed to share scientific information but is now widely used to format web pages. 3. A basic HTML document structure includes tags for the document head and body.

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HTML - Overview - Tutorialspoint

This document provides an overview of HTML, including: 1. HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language and is used to write web pages through tags that structure text. 2. HTML was originally developed to share scientific information but is now widely used to format web pages. 3. A basic HTML document structure includes tags for the document head and body.

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HTML - Overview

HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language, and it is the most widely used language to write
Web Pages.

Hypertext refers to the way in which Web pages (HTML documents) are linked together.
Thus, the link available on a webpage is called Hypertext.
As its name suggests, HTML is a Markup Language which means you use HTML to simply
"mark-up" a text document with tags that tell a Web browser how to structure it to display.

Originally, HTML was developed with the intent of defining the structure of documents like
headings, paragraphs, lists, and so forth to facilitate the sharing of scientific information
between researchers.

Now, HTML is being widely used to format web pages with the help of different tags available
in HTML language.

Basic HTML Document


In its simplest form, following is an example of an HTML document −

 Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
<title>This is document title</title>
</head>

<body>
<h1>This is a heading</h1>
<p>Document content goes here.....</p>
</body>

</html>

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This is a heading
Document content goes here.....

HTML Tags
As told earlier, HTML is a markup language and makes use of various tags to format the
content. These tags are enclosed within angle braces <Tag Name>. Except few tags, most of
the tags have their corresponding closing tags. For example, <html> has its closing tag </html>
and <body> tag has its closing tag </body> tag etc.

Above example of HTML document uses the following tags −

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Sr.No Tag & Description

1 <!DOCTYPE...>

This tag defines the document type and HTML version.

2 <html>

This tag encloses the complete HTML document and mainly comprises of document
header which is represented by <head>...</head> and document body which is
represented by <body>...</body> tags.

3 <head>

This tag represents the document's header which can keep other HTML tags like
<title>, <link> etc.

4 <title>

The <title> tag is used inside the <head> tag to mention the document title.

5 <body>

This tag represents the document's body which keeps other HTML tags like <h1>,
<div>, <p> etc.

6 <h1>

This tag represents the heading.

7 <p>

This tag represents a paragraph.

To learn HTML, you will need to study various tags and understand how they behave, while
formatting a textual document. Learning HTML is simple as users have to learn the usage of
different tags in order to format the text or images to make a beautiful webpage.

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommends to use lowercase tags starting from HTML
4.

HTML Document Structure


A typical HTML document will have the following structure −

<html>

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<head>
Document header related tags
</head>

<body>
Document body related tags
</body>

</html>

We will study all the header and body tags in subsequent chapters, but for now let's see what
is document declaration tag.

The <!DOCTYPE> Declaration


The <!DOCTYPE> declaration tag is used by the web browser to understand the version of the
HTML used in the document. Current version of HTML is 5 and it makes use of the following
declaration −

<!DOCTYPE html>

There are many other declaration types which can be used in HTML document depending on
what version of HTML is being used. We will see more details on this while discussing
<!DOCTYPE...> tag along with other HTML tags.

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