- What is HTML?
HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. HTML is not a programming language; it is a markup language that defines the structure of your content. Is the code that is used to structure a web page and its content. For example, content could be structured within a set of paragraphs, a list of bulleted points, or using images and data tables.
- What is HTML used for?
Is the code that is used to structure a web page and its content. HTML consists of a series of elements, which you use to enclose, or wrap, different parts of the content to make it appear a certain way, or act a certain way. The enclosing tags can make a word or image hyperlink to somewhere else, can italicize words, can make the font bigger or smaller, and so on.
- Why are we learning HTML?
Because it is the first step in order to know how to create a front-end application or GUI. For blockchain developers, the back end will be he different blockchains used in conjunction with the front end.
- What is an HTML tag?
It is a way to specify the information that is going to be displayed. For example, there is an opening paragraph tag (
) and a closing paragraph tag (
).
- What is the structure of an HTML tag?
The most basic ones consists on the name of the element wrapped by an opening and a closing angle brackets. The closing tag also has / as a sign that it is a closing tag.
- What is an attribute?
Attributes contain extra information about the element that you don’t want to appear in the actual content. A basic example for a text one is one that contains a name (class) and is followed by an = sign and followed by the value within brackets (“…”).
- What is the anatomy of an HTML document?
• — doctype. It is a required preamble.
• — the element. This element wraps all the content on the entire page and is sometimes known as the root element.
• — the element. This element acts as a container for all the stuff you want to include on the HTML page that isn’t the content you are showing to your page’s viewers, like keywords, a page description that you want to appear in search results, CSS to style our content, character set declarations and more.
• — This element sets the character set your document should use to UTF-8, which includes most characters from the vast majority of written languages.
• — the element. This sets the title of your page, which is the title that appears in the browser tab the page is loaded in. It is also used to describe the page when you bookmark/favorite it.
• — the element. This contains all the content that you want to show to web users when they visit your page, whether that’s text, images, videos, games, playable audio tracks, or whatever else.