HTML Introduction: A Journey into Web Development
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What is HTML?
It stands for HyperText Markup Language. It is one of the main three technologies which is used for web development. The other two technologies which are used in web dev. are CSS and JAVASCRIPT. If HTML is the skeleton of a web page then CSS is the skin and makeup of the web page and JAVASCRIPT is muscles and brain.
Emmet in HTML :
emmet is a plugin for text editors that allows you to write HTML and CSS faster. Normally emmet does code formatting, abbreviation expansion, code snippets, cross-editor compatibility and also customization. In vs code, it is inbuilt but for other editors, you have to download the emmet.
The basic structure of HTML :
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
<!doctype html>: Specifies that this is an HTML document.
<html> <html>: Defines the actual HTML document. <html> tag represents the opening of the tag and <html> represents the closing of the tag.
<head> </head>: The head tags define the head of the document. Items here are extra data that goes along with the document.
<title> </title>: The title tag defines the title of the document. You'll notice it shows up at the top of the browser window.
<meta>: they are used to describe the document.
<body> </body>: The body tags enclose the actual content which is the document.
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