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HTML Introduction

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Summary

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is a standard markup language used to build the structure of a web page. HTML is made up of a series of elements that are tagged, then the browser reads it and displays it as a page that can be viewed. It is important to understand that HTML is not a programming language, but a markup language for compiling content such as text, images, and links.

Key points

HTML is the standard markup language for web pages, not a programming language.
Basic structure of documents: doctype, and (<html>)
An element generally has an opening tag, a content tag, and a closing tag.
The browser only renders the contents of <body>, whereas <head> contains metadata

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