Introduction to HTML5

Introduction to HTML5

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Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the basic programming language for Web Designing. Though it is coding, it isn't complicated like C++ or JAVA. It is very light and very easy to learn on a client side.

Any document that is made up of  a plain text,  that has been encoded using HTML is a web page. In few line of code you shall understand how web designing. HTML structures a web page so that it is displayed nicely  in a web browser. 

Hypertext refers to Text that enable a user to jump from document to another document upon a click. By this, we say there are many web pages linked to one another in a manner that a user can navigate through them.

Markup is a special set of Tags that apply layout and formatting behavior to plain text. When a plain text is put in between tags. Finally, it is called Language because it is considered a programming language.

This post is written for the inexperienced who dreams to build a brand in HTML. You are not required, any previous web design or programming knowledge of any kind, this lessons shall provide you a perfect platform for a hobby or self-education, as well as college training.

To be able to use this post, you will need the following hardware and software;

A computer running the operating system Windows 8 or later however Mac, Linux, or UNIX operating system can work if you have command on how to use them.  Secondly, a text-editing program of choice will work. I use NOTEPAD++ . You can download here. Finally, you will need a web browser which I believe you probably have it, otherwise, you wouldn't be reading this post.

What is HTML Tags

A webpage is a document which is formatted in HTML Tags to display text, links and multimedia files. Such file is a plain-text file. This is why it can be edited with plain-text editor like Notepad. The document contains  is literal text that will ordinarily show on the screen when you run the file in a browser and tags which arrange the content in right format.

Therefore an HTML Tags can be said to be a symbolic text which is hidden from the user in a browser display but format and arrange the content of the web pages.

Example of Tags

HTML tags  codes are those inside angle brackets and its meaning is the word between the tags.

<p>  paragraph </p>

<h1>heading 1 </h1>

<a> anchor </a>

<b> bold </b>

In the above samples, to display a paragraph, you open a tag "<p>" and write the content of the paragraph before closing tag "</p>"

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