Chapter 1: Introduction to HTML5

📘 Chapter 1: Introduction to HTML5

✅ What is HTML?

HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. It is the standard language used to create and design static web pages.

It combines:

• HyperText – the text that links one page to another.
• Markup Language – a set of tags used to format and structure content.

🧠 Understanding HyperText

HyperText allows users to navigate from one page to another using links.

💡 Example:

<a href="https://www.google.com">Google</a>

👉 In the example above:

• <a> is an anchor tag (used to create links).
• href is the attribute that holds the destination URL.
• “Google” is the clickable text, also called HyperText.

🧠 Understanding Markup

HTML uses markup tags to structure and style the content on a web page.

💡 Example:

<strong>Hello</strong>

👉 This tells the browser to display Hello in bold text.
Here:

• <strong> is the markup tag.
• Hello is the content.

🎯 Why is it called HTML?

Because HTML is made up of HyperText (linking pages) and Markup (formatting content), it’s called:

HyperText Markup Language (HTML)