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    [ it 304 – wst1 ] lesson 1: what is html and why is it important?

    IT 304 – web systems and technologies 1


    Sir mark Justine a. roque

    What is html and why is it important? It is formed by enclosing the tag


    name with angle brackets. A tag
    importance of html looks like this:
     HTML or most known as
    Hypertext Markup Language is
    considered as the leading The tag has two kinds, the paired
    markup language. It is tag, and the empty tag. What is
    considered as the standard the difference between the two?
    markup language for websites. 1. Paired Tag
    HTML, as the name itself Paired tag consists of a
    implies, is written using start tag (also called an opening
    markups or tags which tag) and an end tag (also called a
    represent various elements. closing tag). Most HTML tags are
    HTML is the core of a website. paired tags. The start tag marks
    All technologies for web the beginning of a section that is
    developers rely on HTML and formed using a left-angle bracket,
    its structure. the tag name, and a right-angle
     HTML documents are plain bracket. The closing tag
    files, and could be saved with determines the end of a section
    the extension *.html, *.htm, or created using a left-angle bracket,
    *.xhtml. Any file name will do a slash, the tag name, and a right-
    in an HTML file as long as you angle bracket.
    follow the naming rules of
    files. HTML documents may
    be created using any text
    editor. 2. Empty Tag
    Empty tags are tags
    Structure of html that do not have an end or closing
    documents tag. Empty tags are formed using
    1. elements
    [ it 304 – wst1 ] lesson 1: what is html and why is it important?

    3. Attributes As we could see, the <html>tag


     Attributes in HTML are acts as the root tag or the
    additional information or outermost tag. In an HTML file, it
    characteristic given to HTML is suggested to have only one root
    tags. It is used to enhance or tag: the <html>tag. The
    modify a tag and is always <head>and <body>tags act as the
    placed within the start tag after children tags of the HTML tag.
    the tag name separated with On the other hand, both tags are
    space. considered the parent tag of
     HTML tags could have more elements inside them. The
    than one attribute. Space shall <title>tag is the child of the
    separate attributes if a tag <head>tag and the <p>tag is the
    contains more than one. child of the <body>tag. Tags in
     Attribute values may be HTML follow the parent-child
    enclosed using a single or a relationship to identify its
    double quote. Several values hierarchy. Let's have an
    can be assigned to an attribute, illustration of a tree-like diagram
    separating them with a comma. of our sample above.
    Here is what an attribute with a
    value looks like:

    4. Hierarchical Structure
    Tags are structured in HTML
    with the hierarchy to be readable Because of its hierarchical
    by developers and executed and structure, we could quickly
    displayed well by browsers. The identify which tag is a child or a
    document structure of an HTML parent of another tag. The
    file follows the first in, last out hierarchical structure of an
    (FILO) rule, which means that the HTML file can be compared to an
    tag that starts first shall be the tag organizational structure of an
    that ends last. Here is an example organization or a business, with a
    hierarchy of who is on the top
    [ it 304 – wst1 ] lesson 1: what is html and why is it important?

    The <html> Tag


    The <html> tag is a paired tag
    which indicates that the document
    is an HTML file. With its start
    and an end tag, it indicates the
    beginning and the end of an
    HTML file.

    The <head>Tag
    The <head>tag holds information
    about the document and is
    generally not displayed. Some
    elements can be placed within the
    head tag such as <link>, <meta>,
    <title>, <script>, <base>, and
    <style>which specify the
    document’s metadata.

    The <body>Tag
    The <body>tag contains all other
    tags and delimits the body section
    of the web pages. This section is
    the visible section when web
    pages are executed in a browser.

    Comments in HTML
    Comments are a block of codes
    that are not displayed in the
    browser. Programmers use

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