This tutorial follows the latest HTML5 standard.
Applications of HTML
As mentioned before, HTML is one of the most widely used language over the web. I'm going to list few of them here:
- Web pages development - HTML is used to create pages which are rendered over the web. Almost every page of web is having html tags in it to render its details in browser.
- Internet Navigation - HTML provides tags which are used to navigate from one page to another and is heavily used in internet navigation.
- Responsive UI - HTML pages now-a-days works well on all platform, mobile, tabs, desktop or laptops owing to responsive design strategy.
- Offline support HTML pages once loaded can be made available offline on the machine without any need of internet.
- Game development- HTML5 has native support for rich experience and is now useful in gaming development arena as well.
HTML page structure
<!DOCTYPE html> : This is the document type declaration. It declares a document as being an HTML document. The doctype declaration is not case-sensitive.
<html> : This tag signals that from here on we are going to write in HTML code.
<head> : This is where all the metadata for the page goes — stuff mostly meant for search engines and other computer programs.
<body> : This is where the content of the page goes.
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| This is how your average HTML page is structured visually. |
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Page Title</title> </head> <body> <h1>My First Heading</h1> <p>My first paragraph.</p> </body> </html>