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HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language)

Hyper Text - Refers to the piece of text which links to another document in the website. This is the foundation of how HTML works.

Markup Language - Refers to mark up the text and show them differently using tags.

TRIVIA: Who created world's first website?

Answer: Sir Tim Berners-Lee

HTML defines the content and structure of the website.

Element

Combination of tags and content is called as HTML Element 

<STARTING TAG>CONTENT</CLOSING TAG>

Tags

Elements are surrounded by tags. 

<STARTING TAG></CLOSING TAG>
In General, CLOSING TAG is nothing but a STARTING TAG along with "/"

Example: 

<h4>Satheesh</h4>
Whereas,

  • <h4> = Starting tag
  • </h4> = Closing tag
  • Satheesh = Content

Best Practices

  1. Keep only one h1 element in the web page
  2. Do not skip header elements (don't go from h1 to h3. Always go h1, h2 and so on.)