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What is HTML?
HTML is the language that builds the structure of a web page.
It decides the frame of the page — this bit is a heading, this bit is a paragraph. If JavaScript is the movement, HTML is the body.
Put a page together
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Your first HTML
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What is HTML?
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Wrap it in tags
HTML is written by wrapping text in <tagname> and </tagname>.
<h1>...</h1>… the biggest heading- the closing one has a
/on it
A set like that is called an element.
<h1>My page</h1>03 / 05
A paragraph is a p tag
Ordinary text goes in <p> (paragraph).
Line up several elements and they show up in order, from the top.
<h1>My page</h1><p>Welcome!</p><p>I am learning to program.</p>04 / 05
Headings come in levels
Heading tags run from <h1> to <h6>, six levels in all. The bigger the number, the smaller the heading.
It is the same idea as the big, medium and small headlines in a newspaper.
<h1>The name of the shop</h1><h2>Menu</h2><h3>Our picks</h3>05 / 05
Write it and see it straight away
From here you write for yourself. The HTML you write shows up in the preview just below.
Keep the rhythm going: write, look, fix.