Reading Assignment – HTML

Javascript Course 2021
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  1. What is HTML?
    -Hyper text markup language code that is used to structure a web page and its content
  2. What is HTML used for?
    -code that is used to structure a web page and its content
  3. Why are we learning HTML?
    -to create websites
  4. What is an HTML tag?
    -a tag states where a HTML element begins and ends
  5. What is the structure of an HTML tag?
    -opening tag and closing tag
  6. What is an attribute?
    attributes contain extra information about an element
  7. What is the anatomy of an HTML document?
    elements combined to make up an HTML page
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1 - HTML ( H yper T ext M arkup L anguage) is a code.
2 - It is used to structure a web page and its content.
3 - To be able to create websites to be used by humans, robots and other indexers.
4 - A tag is something that is part of and opens and closes an element
5 - It consists of the name of the element wrapped in angle brackets
6 - Attributes contain extra information about the element that you don’t want to appear in the actual content.
7 - This would be the doctype, html element, head element, element, viewport element, title element and body element

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  1. What is HTML?
    HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language and is the code used to create web pages.

  2. What is HTML used for?
    HTML is the code that determines the way that information such as headings, texts and images, appears on a web page.

  3. Why are we learning HTML?
    HTML is a basic coding language. It is beneficial to learn it as a foundation to understanding how other coding languages operate.

  4. What is an HTML tag?
    An HTML tag is an instruction written in code as to how something should be displayed. It contains an opening tag, the content to be displayed, and then a closing tag.

  5. What is the structure of an HTML tag?
    This depends on the type of information to be displayed. For example, a paragraph would be tagged as: <p> Paragraph content </p>

  6. What is an attribute?
    Attributes are pieces of information written within HTML tags but are not displayed within the actual content. I.e. they are hidden from the web page display.

  7. What is the anatomy of an HTML document?
    HTML documents contain the following elements:
    <!DOCTYPE html> - this is necessary to let the browser know it’s working with an HTML file.
    <html></html> - this wraps all content on the page and is known as the root element.
    <head></head> - this contains information that is not visible to webpage viewers.
    <meta charset="utf-8"> - this sets the characters to be used for the text.
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width"> - makes sure the webpage renders at the width of viewpoint. I.e. making it easily readable for mobile users.
    <title></title> - sets the title in the browser tab.
    <body></body> - contains all the elements that viewers will see in the webpage.

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Hypertext markup language

Creating web pages

As a precursor to learning javascripts to build blockchain pages

Element which defines how content looks like. e.g. quote here.

Opening tag with closing tag with and content in between

Something which further defines content e.g. here Adamfortuna is replied to.

Tags, elements and content in short.