What is HTML?
Hypertext Markup Language - code used to structure a website. It is not programming language. It is a markup language.
What is HTML used for?
To specify the way the website will look or act.
Why are we learning HTML?
In order to build something that works. HTML is a basic element of the web development.
What is an HTML tag?
HTML tags are the items that enclose words or elements causing them to act a certain way.
They can create a hyperlink, modify the way an item looks.
What is the structure of an HTML tag?
You will have an opening tag, element or words, closing tag. (ie,…
Hello my name is Heather
What is an attribute?
An attribute will have extra info that you don’t want to appear as content.
It allows you to add additional style information.
What is the anatomy of an HTML document? - I had to add spaces in order for the tags to show correctly
< !DOCTYPE html> - arechtype that needs to be included for everything to work correctly.
< html>< /html> - wraps all of the content on the page, aka root element.
< head>< /head> - includes information not to be shown on the page to viewers such as metadata, CSS, character set declarations, etc.
< body>< /body> - Content to be shown to views fo the page.
< meta charset=“utf-8”> - used to set the characters on your page. should be included in order to avoid issues later.
< title>< /title> sets title of the page