HTML is the standard Markup language.

It stands for HyperText Markup Language.

  • H – Hyper
  • T- Text
  • M – Markup
  • L – Language

It used to structure web pages using markup.

HTML has two types of markups:

  • Tags: are elements surrounded by angle bracket.

           Syntax of tags: <tagname> content</tagname> 

             There are two types of Html tags.

  1. Container tags: those types of tags have starting and closing tags.
        The following table shows some examples of container tags.
Start TAg end Tag Description
<p> </p> paragraph
<b> </b> bold
<html> </html> opens and closes an HTML document







  • Character entity: are entities that start with an ampersand(&) and followed by an entity name and closed by a semicolon. see some examples of character entities below.

    • Character Entity
    Character Entity Discription
    < < Less than
    > > Greater than
    " &quot; Double quotation mark
    (c) &copy; Copyright

    Struc    ture of HTML Document

    HTML document consists of 5 elements:

    • <!DOCTYPE>
    • <html>
    • <head>
    • <title>
    • <body>