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<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

<title>Page Title</title>

</head>

<body>


<h1>This is a Heading</h1>

<p>This is a paragraph.</p>


</body>

</html>


The <!DOCTYPE> Declaration

The <!DOCTYPE> declaration represents the document type, and helps browsers to display web pages correctly.


It must only appear once, at the top of the page (before any HTML tags).


The <!DOCTYPE> declaration is not case sensitive.


The <!DOCTYPE> declaration for HTML5 is:


<!DOCTYPE html>


HTML Headings

HTML headings are defined with the <h1> to <h6> tags.


<h1> defines the most important heading. <h6> defines the least important heading: 


Example

<html>

<body>


<h1>This is heading 1</h1>

<h2>This is heading 2</h2>

<h3>This is heading 3</h3>

<h4>This is heading 4</h4>

<h5>This is heading 5</h5>

<h6>This is heading 6</h6>


</body>

</html>


HTML Paragraphs


HTML paragraphs are defined with the <p> tag:


Example

<p>This is a paragraph.</p>

<p>This is another paragraph.</p>


HTML Links

Example

<a> href="https://osamachowdhury.blogspot.com/">This is a link</a>

HTML Images

HTML images are defined with the <img> tag.


The source file (src), alternative text (alt), width, and height are provided as attributes:


Example

<html>

<body>


<h2>HTML Images</h2>

<p>HTML images are defined with the img tag:</p>


<img src="w3schools.jpg" alt="W3Schools.com" width="104" height="142">


</body>

</html>

HTML Elements

The HTML element is everything from the start tag to the end tag:

<tagname>Content goes here...</tagname>

Examples of some HTML elements:

  <h1>My First Heading</h1>

  <p>My first paragraph.</p>

 Start tag Element content         End tag

  <h1>  My First Heading </h1>

 <p>      My first paragraph. </p>

 <br>       none                      none

  

Note: Some HTML elements have no content (like the <br> element). These elements are called empty elements. Empty elements do not have an end tag!


Nested HTML Elements

HTML elements can be nested (this means that elements can contain other elements).


All HTML documents consist of nested HTML elements.


The following example contains four HTML elements (<html>, <body>, <h1> and <p>):

<html>

<body>


<h1>My First Heading</h1>

<p>My first paragraph.</p>


</body>

</html>

Example Explained

The <html> element is the root element and it defines the whole HTML document.


It has a start tag <html> and an end tag </html>.


Then, inside the <html> element there is a <body> element:

<body>


<h1>My First Heading</h1>

<p>My first paragraph.</p>


</body>

The <body> element defines the document's body.


It has a start tag <body> and an end tag </body>.


Then, inside the <body> element there are two other elements: <h1> and <p>:

<h1>My First Heading</h1>

<p>My first paragraph.</p>

The <h1> element defines a heading.


It has a start tag <h1> and an end tag </h1>:


<h1>My First Heading</h1>

The <p> element defines a paragraph.


It has a start tag <p> and an end tag </p>:


<p>My first paragraph.</p>

Never Skip the End Tag

Some HTML elements will display correctly, even if you forget the end tag:


Example

<html>

<body>


<p>This is a paragraph

<p>This is a paragraph


</body>

</html>

HTML Tag Reference

World newspaper' tag reference contains additional information about these tags and their attributes.


Tag Description

<html> Defines the root of an HTML document

<body> Defines the document's body

<h1> to <h6> Defines HTML headings.

The src Attribute

The <img> tag is used to embed an image in an HTML page. The src attribute specifies the path to the image to be displayed:


Example

<img src="img_girl.jpg">

The width and height Attributes

The <img> tag should also contain the width and height attributes, which specify the width and height of the image (in pixels):


Example

<img src="img_girl.jpg" width="500" height="600">

The alt Attribute

The required alt attribute for the <img> tag specifies an alternate text for an image, if the image for some reason cannot be displayed. This can be due to a slow connection, or an error in the src attribute, or if the user uses a screen reader.

<img src="img_girl.jpg" alt="Girl with a jacket">

Example

See what happens if we try to display an image that does not exist:


<img src="img_typo.jpg" alt="Girl with a jacket">

The style Attribute

The style attribute is used to add styles to an element, such as color, font, size, and more.


Example

<p style="color:red;">This is a red paragraph.</p>

The lang Attribute

You should always include the lang attribute inside the <html> tag, to declare the language of the Web page. This is meant to assist search engines and browsers.


The following example specifies English as the language:


<!DOCTYPE html>

<html lang="en">

<body>

...

</body>

</html>

Country codes can also be added to the language code in the lang attribute. So, the first two characters define the language of the HTML page, and the last two characters define the country.


The following example specifies English as the language and United States as the country:


<!DOCTYPE html>

<html lang="en-US">

<body>

...

</body>

</html>

The title Attribute

The title attribute defines some extra information about an element.


The value of the title attribute will be displayed as a tooltip when you mouse over the element:


Example


headings

<p title="I'm a tooltip">This is a paragraph.</p>

HTML Tag Reference

Osama chowdhury  tag reference contains additional information about these tags and their attributes.


Tag            Description

<html>            Defines the root of an HTML document

<body>            Defines the document's body

<h1> to <h6>    Defines HTML headings


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