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A brief detour: HTML

A brief detour: HTML

Learn about HTML, the language understood by all browsers!

HTML

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the language used by browsers to display content. So many of the nice-looking websites we run into look that way because HTML tells them exactly how to format the displayed text.

An HTML element

The big idea is that HTML uses these elements to mark up parts of the text. These elements then say how to modify that marked text or how to use it for other purposes.

Each element has an opening angular bracket (<), followed by the name of that tag, followed by a closing angular bracket (>), like so: <html>, <head>, <body>, and <title>.

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