The Basic Language of the Web: HTML
All modern websites and web applications are built using three fundamentals technologies: HTML, CSS and Javascript. These are language of the web.
In this post let's focus on HTML. We will learn what HTML is all about, and why you too should learn it.
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What is HTML?
HTML stands for HyperText Markup language. It's a markup language that web developers use to structure and describe the content of a webpage (not a programming language).
HTML consists of elements that describe different types of content: paragraphs, links, headings, images videos etc. Web browsers understand HTML and render HTML code as websites
In HTML, each elements is made up of 3 parts:
- The opening tag
- The closing tag
- The actual elements
You can learn more at the: MDN Web Docs
Why you should learn HTML?
There are countless reason you learning the fundamental language of the web. Here are 5 of them:
- To be able to use the fundamental web dev language
- To hand-craft beautiful website instead of relying on tools like wordpress and wix
- To build web applications
- To impress friends
- To have fun 😊
Hopefully you learn something new here see you next time.