What is HTML and what does HTML stand for?
HTML stands for "Hypertext Markup Language" and is a coding language. It is the standard markup language for web pages. The language describes the structure of a given web page and consists of so-called HTML elements.
Web browsers can understand and read HTML, and it is in fact exactly HTML code that you are looking at right now, here on our website. It is the language that web browsers display. Closely intertwined with HTML, you will find the two other "client-side" languages CSS and JavaScript, which can support and underpin the presentation of HTML code.
What does HTML look like? HTML code example and explanation
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Page title</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Primary heading</h1>
<p>A paragraph of text</p>
<button>A button</button>
</body>
</html>
<!DOCTYPE html> tells the browser that this is an HTML5 document
<html> element is the root element of all HTML pages
<head> contains so-called meta information about the HTML page
<title> tag/element defines a title for the page, which is displayed in the browser's title bar or tab
<body> element is the document's "body". This is where all visible content is placed, such as headings, paragraphs, buttons, links, etc.
<h1> element is a "header-1" heading, and is hierarchically the top-level heading. In addition to the H1 heading, there are also H2, H3, H4, H5, and H6 headings. Correct use of these is important for SEO.
<p> element defines a paragraph of text.
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