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WHAT I LEARNT FROM WATCHING A 4-HOUR TUTORIAL ON YOUTUBE FOR BEGINNERS ON HTML.


HTML(Hyper Text Markup Language)is the most basic building block of a Web. It defines the meaning and structure of a web.
HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. It is the standard language used to create and structure content on the web.

HTML is a markup language, not a programming language, meaning it annotates text to define how it is structured and displayed by web browsers.
    It forms the building blocks of all websites and is complemented by CSS for style and JavaScript for interactivity.
"Hypertext" refers to links that cannect web pages to one another within a single website or between websites.
HTML uses"Markup" to annotate tet, images and other content for displaying in a web browser. HTML markup includes special elements such as <head>, <body>, <header, <p, and so many more we'll be seeing in the article. HTML uses a web browser to display and you write codes. Elements which are everything from the opening tag to the closing tag and everything in between.
    To start writing in HTML, one has to first declear the <!DOCTYPE> which is HTML5. We use index.html to lunch a file because that is the name the browser recognizes.
    HTML pages has two main areas
1.The area that contains data that are not displayed on the page but is considered to be meta data.This is the <head>
2. The area that is seen in the browser, it is held within the <body>.
    
    We can check errors when creating a web page using the Markup Validation service,W3C,it makes the standard for the web.
The following are some commonly used HTML tags and their meaning.
a``> tags.
<``img: Is used to insert images in a page``>
    
<``p``>: It is used to create paragraph.
    
<``br``>: to create line breaks.
<``li``>:list
<``ul``>:unordered list.
<``nav``><:to define a section of navigation.
<``ol``>:ordered list.
             
<``form``>: to create a form file.
    
<``table``>: To create a table in Html.
<``head``>: it is used to define ingormation about the content.
<``footer``>:is used to define a footer for a document.
<``p``>.
    Attrributes:They are words used inside an oppening that provides moreinformation about html elements e.g href, type="text", src and lots more.
The head is a very important part of the page. It is where i can link the CSS fies and even javasript files.
Always validate as you code.
The only stylesheet there is is CSS.
The comment is a note to the coder or a reminder to one's self. It is not visible to the web but it is visible to the source code.
I learnt how to use and insert links and images.

    
    

    
    
    

