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HTML Introduction

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HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. It is the standard language used to create web pages. Every website you open — Google, YouTube, kamaldnp.com — is built on HTML at its core.

HTML is not a programming language. It is a markup language. That means you do not write logic or calculations in it. You write tags that tell the browser what each part of the page is: this is a heading, this is a paragraph, this is a picture, this is a link.

How a web page works

When you type a website address, your browser asks a server for the page. The server sends back an HTML file. The browser reads the tags in that file and draws the page on your screen — text, images, buttons, and all.

HTML works together with two other technologies. CSS controls how the page looks — colours, fonts, spacing. JavaScript controls how the page behaves — clicks, animations, and forms. You will meet both later in this course, but HTML always comes first, because it is the skeleton of the page.

What you need to start

You need only two free tools: a text editor (like Notepad on Windows, or VS Code) and a web browser (like Chrome). Write the code, save the file with a .html ending, and open it in the browser. That is all. No internet connection is needed to practise.

Tip: In this course every lesson has a small example and a picture of its output. Try typing the example yourself instead of only reading it — that is how the tags stay in your memory.

Example

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>My First Page</title>
</head>
<body>

<h1>Hello, World!</h1>
<p>This is my first web page.</p>

</body>
</html>

Output

Output — how it looks in the browser

Try it yourself: copy the code above into a file named test.html, open it in your browser, and change the text to see what happens. That is how you learn — by changing things and watching the result.

HTML Editors