What is HTML code?

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October 28, 2024

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Anastassia Lauterbach

HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. It is the code that tells web browsers how to display web pages. 

Here is a simple explanation of what HTML code looks like:

Imagine you have a big box, and inside that box, you have smaller boxes. The big box is like the whole web page, and the smaller boxes are like different parts of the page, like the title, the paragraphs, the images, and so on.

Each of these smaller boxes has a special name, like ‘heading’ for the title, ‘paragraph’ for the text, ‘image’ for a picture, and so on. These names are called tags in HTML.html

Let’s break this down:

<html> and </html> are the tags that tell the browser that this is an HTML document.

Inside the <html> tags, there are two main sections: <head> and <body>.

The <head> section contains information about the web page, like the title, which is shown in the browser’s tab or window.

The <body> section contains the actual content of the web page, like the heading, the paragraph, and the image.

Each tag has a name, like <h> for the heading, <p> for the paragraph, and <img> for the image.

Some tags, like <img>, have extra information inside them, like the source of the image (src=”myimage.jpg”) and the alternative text for the image (alt=”MyImage”).

In a nutshell, HTML code is like a set of special instructions that tell web browsers how to display web pages, using tags to define different parts of the page.

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