What is HTML?
Hyper Text Markup Language. It is a markup language not a programming language. HTML consists of Elements where an Element consists of an opening tag, closing tag, angular brackets, and content.
What is HTML used for?
HTML is primarily used to structure the content and style on a webpage.
Why are we learning HTML?
To learn how to build a webpage that can interface with our smart contract, block chain or other application. At a minimum to learn what is required and how a webpage connects to a contract, block chain, or app, even if we are not building it ourselves.
What is an HTML tag?
An HTML tag is typically defined as a set of characters constituting a formatted command for a Web page. Tags give the directions or recipes for the visual content that you see on a Web page. SOURCE
What is the structure of an HTML tag?
Per the source quoted just prior, the structure of an HTML tag “consists of the tag name in angular brackets and may come in pair, which makes up the beginning and ending tag that frame a particular piece of code, text or other tags. The beginning tag consists of the name, optionally followed by one or more attributes, whereas the ending tag consists of the same name preceded by a forward slash ("/"). For example, the HTML tag “
” begins a paragraph, whereas “
” ends that paragraph. This is a consistent syntax in HTML.
What is an attribute?
An attribute contains additional information about an element that we do not want to appear in the content itself. An attribute should always (1) have a space between it and the element name (or previous attribute), (2) the attribute name followed by an equal sign, and (3) the attribute value wrapped by opening and closing quotation marks. Additional information can be found HERE.
What is the anatomy of an HTML document?
The anatomy of an HTML documents looks like the following…