Mastering HTML5 Basics

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is the fundamental language for creating web documents (content pages). HTML is very easy to learn. I hope, that besides learning , You'll surely enjoy it.

HTML5 is the next major revision of the HTML standard superseding HTML 4.01, XHTML

1.0, and XHTML 1.1. HTML5 is a standard for structuring and presenting content on the

World Wide Web.

HTML5  is  a  cooperation  between  the  World  Wide  Web  Consortium  (W3C)  and  the  Web

Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG).

Loading a simple HTML page in a web browser :
Let's start simple.

1 - Open Notepad(Windows), Enter Some Text Inside and Save it is index.html.

2 - Now, open this file index.html in your default (may not be) browser.

3 - You'll see that all the content that you typed in Notepad and saved, is displaying exactly like on Web Browser.

Things to REMEMBER about HTML:

 * In HTML, in most cases data is written in tags.A opening tag and a closing tag.For Example , This is Heading Element.
 * However, there are some elements which does not require closing tags.For Example,  , ,  etc.
 * There are three most important tags of an HTML Page, that are , and tags.
 * You must declare <!DOCTYPE html>, before writing any HTML code.This tells the browser that you are using HTML of Version 5.

A Simple HTML Structured Page:
Here is a simple webpage written in HTML :

Don't be mess up if you find it trouble, we'll discuss each in detail soon. Infact, these are the things , you probably need to remember in mind. Ok! Write these lines in Notepad and save this file as index.html.

Open index.html file in your web browser and you will see that nothing happens on the page except that Title of the Page appears on the top of the browser. This is because, this is just the standard structure of any HTML5 Page. We had not add any content in it yet and therefore, it looks empty.

Standard HTML Tools
Here are some most important HTML Tools, you need to know about.

Headings:
There are six type of headings available in HTML. These includes : Type these headings one by one in body tag of HTML document and display it in browser.

Paragraphs:
In HTML, paragraphs are represented with and  tags.

Links:
To insert a link onto any page, we use anchor tags .But instead of writing some text inside these tags , we use a special text like this, Text To Display For Link