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HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language and is the code that is used to structure a webpage and its content. HTML is not a programming language.
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HTML consists of a series of elements, which you use to enclose, or wrap, different parts of the content to make it appear or act a certain way. The enclosing tags can make a word or image hyperlink to somewhere else, can italicise words, can make the font bigger or smaller, and so on
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HTML is the foundational core to web development. It also fully supports Javascript (web 2.0) which enables us to edit or portray our content to our desire. A lot of the Javascript language can also be used for blockchain development, mainly Solidity for Ethereum
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HTML tags are the hidden keywords within a web page that define how your web browser must format and display the content.
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HTML tag is what wraps around our content to form an element. The opening tag consists of the name of the element, wrapped in open & closing angle brackets. This states where the element begins or starts to take effect. The closing tag is the same as the opening tag, except that it includes a forward slash before the element name. This states where the element ends
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Attributes contain extra information about the element that you don’t want to appear in the actual content.
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Different individual elements are combined to form an entire HTML page:
<!DOCTYPE html>
— doctype
<html></html>
— the HTML element
<head></head>
— the head element
‘<meta charset="utf-8”>’
<title></title>
— the title element
<body></body>
— the body element