The Basic Language of the Web: HTML
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+ Posted by Laura Jones on Monday, June 21st 2027 +
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+ All modern websites and web applications are built using three fundamental technologies: HTML, CSS and JavaScript. These are the languages of the web. +
+ +In this post, let's focus on HTML. We will learn what HTML is all about, and why you too should learn it.
+ +What is HTML?
++ HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. It's a markup language that web developers use to structure and describe the content of a webpage (not a programming language). +
++ HTML consists of elements that describe different types of content: paragraphs, links, headings, images, video, etc. Web browsers understand HTML and render HTML code as websites. +
+ +In HTML, each element is made up of 3 parts:
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- The opening tag +
- The closing tag +
- The actual element +
+ You can learn more at the + MDN Web Docs. +
+ ++ Why should you learn HTML? +
+ ++ There are countless reasons for learning the fundamental language of the web. Here are 5 of them: +
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- + To be able to use the fundamental web dev language + +
- + To hand-craft beautiful websites instead of relying on tools like Worpress or Wix + +
- + To build web applications + +
- + To impress friends + +
- + To have fun 😃 + +
+ Hopefully you learned something new here. See you next time! +
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