Before starting this lecture, make sure you are familiar with  Folder and File Structure.


What is HTML?

It stands for HyperText Markup Language.

HTML is the standard markup language for creating Web pages. The basic structure of the webpage; home to the raw content and the organizational elements of a webpage. It is not a programming or scripting language.

Just FYI, there have been many versions of HTML:

HTML describes the structure of a Web page.

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HTML consists of a series of elements, one inside another, sometimes. It's like a box, full of boxes, a Russian doll.

Let’s look at this example below, and all its containers: The <html> element contains all elements of the page, the <head> element contains the title, and the body contains <h1> and <p>.