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HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. It is a page formatting language comprising of elements, whose content is bounded by opening and closing tags.
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HTML is used to format web pages; to define how the content will be displayed in a web browser.
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We need to learn HTML because it is required in a large part to create front ends for web applications.
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an HTML tag is what precedes (with the opening tag) and goes after (with the closing tag) the content of an HTML element.
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an HTML tag is an HTML keyword bounded by a < and a > the closing tag is bounded by a </ and >
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an attribute can be assigned to an HTML element and would be contained within the opening tag. It is another keyword used to define an extra property of that element, and would be set to a value. The attribute name and value would be separated by an = sign.
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an HTML document will have the following anatomy:
a) Where the Doctype tag is a required legacy preamble.
b) the HTML tag contains the page
c) the head tag contains the and title tags, the former defines the character set to use.
d) the title tag defines what is displayed in then browser tag as the title of the page
e) then the body tag contains the rest of the page content.