an introduction to HTML
stands for Hyper Text Markup language and it is the markup language for creating web pages, it uses tags to identify elements so the browser can display it correctly
Each of these are containers, without these all the text would just merge together
Anatomy of a tags
Example
<p> A short paragraph explaining stuff. </p>
It has an opening tag, content, closing tag
This is a website that shows all the tags, note the ones in red aren’t used but they are still listed: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element
Semantic Elements
HTML has a lot of semantic elements that describe how the content should behave, Semantic meaning relating to meaning.
We should use the correct tag for each element based on the intended purpose rather than its appearance. to change it’s appearance we should use CSS (cascading style sheets)
