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  • HTML Images

    HTML images are defined with the <img> tag. The source file (src), alternative text (alt), width, and height are provided as attributes: Example <img src=”w3schools.jpg” alt=”W3Schools.com” width=”104″ height=”142″>

  • HTML Links

    HTML links are defined with the <a> tag: Example <a href=”https://www.w3schools.com”>This is a link</a>

  • HTML Paragraphs

    HTML paragraphs are defined with the <p> tag: Example <p>This is a paragraph.</p><p>This is another paragraph.</p>

  • HTML Headings

    HTML headings are defined with the <h1> to <h6> tags. <h1> defines the most important heading. <h6> defines the least important heading:  Example <h1>This is heading 1</h1><h2>This is heading 2</h2><h3>This is heading 3</h3>

  • HTML Documents

    All HTML documents must start with a document type declaration: <!DOCTYPE html>. The HTML document itself begins with <html> and ends with </html>. The visible part of the HTML document is between <body> and </body>. Example <!DOCTYPE html><html><body> <h1>My First Heading</h1><p>My first paragraph.</p> </body></html> The <!DOCTYPE> Declaration The <!DOCTYPE> declaration represents the document type, and helps browsers to display web pages correctly. It must only…

  • HTML History

    Since the early days of the World Wide Web, there have been many versions of HTML: Year Version 1989 Tim Berners-Lee invented www 1991 Tim Berners-Lee invented HTML 1993 Dave Raggett drafted HTML+ 1995 HTML Working Group defined HTML 2.0 1997 W3C Recommendation: HTML 3.2 1999 W3C Recommendation: HTML 4.01 2000 W3C Recommendation: XHTML 1.0…

  • HTML Page Structure

    Below is a visualization of an HTML page structure: <html> <head> <title>Page title</title> </head> <body> <h1>This is a heading</h1> <p>This is a paragraph.</p> <p>This is another paragraph.</p> </body> </html>

  • Web Browsers

    The purpose of a web browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari) is to read HTML documents and display them correctly. A browser does not display the HTML tags, but uses them to determine how to display the document:

  • What is an HTML Element?

    An HTML element is defined by a start tag, some content, and an end tag: <tagname> Content goes here… </tagname> The HTML element is everything from the start tag to the end tag: <h1>My First Heading</h1> <p>My first paragraph.</p> Start tag Element content End tag <h1> My First Heading </h1> <p> My first paragraph. </p> <br> none none

  • What is HTML?

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