Without HTML the web as we know it wouldn\u2019t exist. HTML creates structure on the web from page layouts and paragraphs to links, tags and attributes. Every time we go online, whether we know it or not, HTML is most likely present. Here we will explain some of the fundamental concepts of HTML.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
HTML is a standardised system for tagging text files that creates the structure for just about every page that we find and use on the web. It\u2019s HTML that adds in page breaks, paragraphs, bold lettering, italics, and more. HTML works to build this structure by using tags that tell browsers what to do with text. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example, to make a word appear bold, we put that word between the following tags <strong>bold<\/strong>. The first tag indicates the start of the word(s) that we want to bold, and the closing tag(\/) indicates where we want the bold to stop. It\u2019s the basis for pretty much every page on the web. If you are learning to code, this is the place to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. A hypertext is a sort of meta text that is used to reference other pieces of text. The Markup Language element of HTML means that it provides a series of markings that instruct a web browser on what it should do with those pieces of text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
HTML is the skeleton of just about any website. It provides the bones that underpin everything else on site. Common things that HTML is used to define are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To give a clearer understanding of how HTML works to create the final version of a webpage, if HTML is our skeleton, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets<\/a>) would be what gives us our features, like the colour of our eyes, skin and hair. JavaScript<\/a> would be to do with our movements and how we interact with people \u2013 like when we reciprocate a handshake, wink, laugh or ask a question. <\/p>\n\n\n\n