HTML is a language for describing web pages. - HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
- HTML is a markup language
- A markup language is a set of markup tags
- The tags describe document content
- HTML documents contain HTML tags and plain text
- HTML documents are also called web pages
HTML markup tags are usually called HTML tags - HTML tags are keywords (tag names) surrounded by angle brackets like <html>
- HTML tags normally come in pairs like <b> and </b>
- The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the
second tag is the end tag
- The end tag is written like the start tag, with a forward slash
before the tag name
- Start and end tags are also called opening tags and closing
tags
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