Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML)

HyperText Markup Language commonly known as HTML is a foundational coding language used for building web pages. .It is an industry-standard language that is guaranteed to be understood by all web browsing applications like Safari, Firefox, and of course the Google Chrome also which are used on many of our computers, tablets, or smartphones to display with websites. HTML is also a universally accepted standard for making sure search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing can find your website based on relevant search terms (i.e.: what you type to search).

It defines the parts of web pages to web browsers that visit them. Those browsers then take a site’s HTML content and translate it into what you see on your device’s screen. Whether your website is the most sophisticated suite of slideshows, videos, and interactive forms, or it’s just one simple page of text, HTML is the language that organizes it all.

So you must be wondering well Why Should I Learn HTML in the first place?

Well, a good explanation to this question will be that it helps in determining which part of the page is a header, which is a footer, where paragraphs belong, where images, graphics, and videos are placed—this is all handled by HTML. And that’s why HTML is one of the most fundamental building blocks needed for developing websites. It’s also why HTML is one of the first languages you should learn if you’re interested in coding.

But If you’re new to web Designing, this might seem like a big undertaking to you, but don’t panic! Learning HTML is a lot more doable than you might think because the time required to Learn HTML is Just a few weeks. YES, you heard right you can learn it in just a matter of weeks and—after you spend those weeks getting up to speed with HTML and by learning few other languages like CSS which is used for defining things like fonts, background colors, and page layout styles you’ll be in a position to start doing paid work also say building a website, creating a custom email template, or even as a social media manager.

First Look On HTML

When you use " HTML " tags to create something like a headline or a paragraph, you are basically creating “elements.” while the so-called Elements are the individual HTML components that make the HTML document or webpage, defined by:

1. Opening Tags () 
2. Closing Tags () and as well as the information between them (This is a paragraph). 

A web page’s HTML elements can consist of different types of content and media, including:

In HTML you have to use different tags to perform different types of changes on your web page.
For example, for  images, we use  tags, for videos we use

Elements also include meta elements and structural elements.

Meta elements are HTML elements that users don’t see when they’re visiting a webpage, but give web browsers additional information about the page—things like keywords, the author of the document, the time and date it was last modified, etc. These are mainly used for record keeping on the web developer’s end or for optimizing the website for search engine results, making the site more likely to appear when people Google the site’s keyword topics.

Structural elements are the HTML elements used to organize the content of a web page. Structural elements like

and are used to denote block-level content (content that takes up the full width of its “container” or page) versus inline content (content that only takes up the space between its tags), while elements like

contain the header content of a page,

contains the footer content, etc.

And Now Coming to the Attributes.

Attributes are instructions that can be added to HTML tags in order to provide additional information about elements. For example, an HTML element like a paragraph can have an attribute for how it’s aligned (left, center, or right). Attributes are included in the opening tag and made up of the attribute name, an equal sign, and a value in double quotes.

For Example:

This is my paragraph!

Basic HTML Document 

In Notepad it looks like this:

,,Note: HTML elements can be nested i.e there can be elements inside an element for example the main element contain a child element .

Note: HTML elements with no content are called empty elements.for example
.

How HTML Becomes a Web Page ?

So now we have a basic view on HTML basics but how does all this HTML stuff go from HTML code to becoming an actual website ?

But you see It’s a straightforward process—HTML code can be written as a plain text HTML document in any basic text editor like our old buddy Notepad and even in the Notepad ++ or even in a more fancy one like Brackets will also do fine. I will be providing Download links in the end of this article. After the code is now finally written then it’s saved as an HTML file with .html extension at the end. However no Luxurious hardware other than a standard computer is required. Those .html files then become the basis for a website’s individual pages and are put online as a live website through a process called web hosting. Web browsers visiting and viewing your HTML pages are able to translate the tags and text and process them into the final product on visitors’ screens.

However some Additional programming languages and techniques are required to achieve results beyond static web pages (features like animated graphics, interactive forms, and photo slideshows), but—no matter what—HTML is a key, foundational step in web development.

Useful Links:

• Download Brackets
• Download Notepad++

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