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Understanding HTML and Web Basics

The document provides definitions for key web concepts, including websites, web pages, hyperlinks, and URLs. It explains HTML as the standard markup language for creating web content, highlighting its structure, syntax, and the distinction between markup and programming languages. Additionally, it describes HTML editors as tools for managing HTML code and outlines basic HTML syntax with examples of opening, closing, and empty tags.

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Understanding HTML and Web Basics

The document provides definitions for key web concepts, including websites, web pages, hyperlinks, and URLs. It explains HTML as the standard markup language for creating web content, highlighting its structure, syntax, and the distinction between markup and programming languages. Additionally, it describes HTML editors as tools for managing HTML code and outlines basic HTML syntax with examples of opening, closing, and empty tags.

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Website

 A collection of related web pages, usually sharing a domain name


and hosted on a web server.

Web page

 A single document on the web, viewable in a browser, that may


contain text, images, links, and multimedia.

Hyperlink →

 Clickable text, image, or object that links to another location, either


in the same page, a different page, or another website.

URL (Uniform Resource Locator)

 The address used to access a specific resource (like a web page) on


the internet.

What is HTML ?

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language — it’s the standard
language used to create and structure content on the World Wide Web.

Think of it as the blueprint of a web page:

 Hyper Text → The “hyper” part refers to hyperlinks, which let you
connect one page or resource to another.

 Markup → It uses tags (like <p>, <h1>, <a>) to “mark up”


content, telling the browser how text, images, and other elements
should appear.

 Language → While not a programming language, it’s a set of rules


and elements that browsers can interpret to display web content.
 HTML isn’t considered a programming language because it doesn’t
have the ability to perform logical operations, calculations, or
control the flow of a program the way languages like Python, Java,
or JavaScript can.

 HTML’s job is to describe the structure and presentation of content


on a web page — it tells the browser what to display and how it
should be organised.

 No logic or decision-making → True programming languages can


make decisions (if statements), repeat actions (loops), or store and
manipulate data with variables. HTML cannot do any of this — it’s
purely declarative, not procedural.

 Markup vs. Programming → In markup, you label or “mark up”


pieces of content with tags so they appear in a certain way. In
programming, you write instructions that the computer can execute
step-by-step.

HTML editor

A HTML editor is a software tool used to create, edit, and manage HTML
code, which is the backbone of web pages

HTML syntax

 Opening tags: <b>

 Closing tags </b

 Container tags: require both opening and closing tags

 Empty tags: don't require closing tags e.g. <br.

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