HTML for Complete Beginners
HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language and is the computer language that most of the Internet is written in. HTML is made up of tags and sets of tags, a set being two tags that are linked: a start tag and an end tag. HTML is a bit like a person, the head comes first, then the body. As I've just mentioned the very first main tag of every single HTML document is usually the HTML tag, which is a start tag and is written as . Accompanying it will be the very last tag of the document, the end tag, . Notice the / this means it is an end tag. Every start tag must have an end tag. Start tags begin a section of code and end tags finish it. I say the very first "main" tag as there can be a tag before it, the DOCTYPE tag. This tag gives the browser information about what type of HTML is being used. The head section begins with the
tag and ends with the tag. It has information about the page itself and consists of the page title, the meta tags (more on those in a minute), and the code for any page transitions you may have. The page title is self-explanatory and is written as
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