HTML | Introduction

HTML tutorial or HTML 5 tutorial provides basic and advanced concepts of HTML. Our HTML tutorial is developed for beginners and professionals. In our tutorial, every topic is given step-by-step so that you can learn it in a very easy way. If you are new in learning HTML, then you can learn HTML from basic to a professional level and after learning HTML with CSS and JavaScript you will be able to create your own interactive and dynamic website. But Now We will focus on HTML only in this tutorial.

What is HTML?

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
HTML is the standard markup language for creating Web pages
HTML describes the structure of a Web page
HTML consists of a series of elements
HTML elements tell the browser how to display the content
HTML elements label pieces of content such as "this is a heading", "this is a paragraph", "this is a link", etc.

HTML Example with HTML Editor

In this tutorial, you will get a lot of HTML examples, at least one example for each topic with explanation. You can also edit and run these examples, with our online HTML editor. Learning HTML is fun, and it's very easy to learn.

Example

<html>
<head>
<title>page title</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1> my name</h1>
</body>
</html>

output

my name

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Features of HTML:

It is easy to learn and easy to use.
It is platform independent.
Images, video and audio can be added to a web page.
Hypertext can be added to text.
It is a markup language.

2

Why learn HTML?

It is a simple markup language. Its implementation is easy.
It is used to create a website.
Helps in developing fundamentals about web programming.
Boost professional career.

3

Advantages:

HTML is used to build websites.
It is supported by all browsers.
It can be integrated with other languages like CSS, JavaScript etc.

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Disadvantages:

HTML can only create static webpages. For dynamic webpages, other languages have to be used.
A large amount of code has to be written to create a simple web page.
Security feature is not good.