Basic HTML Definitions and Usages in the Real World
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Generally, the term **HTML** stands for **HyperText Markup Language**. The main purpose of this markup language is to **create a webpage** and its content. This page will give you a basic understanding of HTML and its usages.

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## Table of contents:

- [What is HTML?](#h-what-is-html)
- [Basics of HTML:](#h-basics-of-html)
- [HTML Templates:](#h-html-templates)
- [HTML References:](#h-html-references)
- [HTML Tags:](#h-html-tags)
- [Wrap-Up:](#h-wrap-up)
- [Frequently Asked Question Section:](#h-frequently-asked-question-section)

## What is HTML?

**<abbr title="Hypertext Markup Language">HTML</abbr>** is not a programming language, It is a **primary markup language** that defines the structure of your website. It consists of a series of codes used to **structure the texts, images, and other content** to be displayed in the browser.

The HTML files are saved with the extension of **“.html”** or **“.htm”**. You can view them using any web browser such as **Google Chrome** , **Safari,** or **Mozilla Firefox**.

## Basics of HTML:

When it comes to HTML basics, there are three main concepts available. They are **Elements** , **Tags** , and **Attributes**.

- The essential HTML components are:
  - **HTML Elements** : It is a **building block of HTML pages** that contains an open tag with some **attributes** , **enclosed text content** , and a **closing tag**

  - **HTML Tags** : The main function of an HTML tag is to create an element. It consists of three main parts: an **opening tag** , **content** , and **closing tag**. 

  - **HTML Attributes** : The HTML attributes provide **extra information** about the HTML elements.

  - **HTML Formatting** : The HTML text formatting is nothing but the process of formatting text for a better look and feel. It contains more tags that are used to make text **bold, italicized, or underlined** , etc.

  - **HTML tables** : In HTML, you can create the tables for your website. It allows **displaying the data in columns and rows of cells**. 

## HTML Templates:

A Website Template is a **pre-build resource** that shows the structure for the extensive layout and display features of any website. An HTML template build using **<abbr title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</abbr>** or **<abbr title="Extensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</abbr>** and include **<abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr>** and **Javascript code**.

## HTML References:

The browser should know what character sets to use. Because it required to display an HTML page correctly. In earlier, the computers are designed with an **<abbr title="American Standard Code for Information Interchange">ASCII</abbr>** character set that supports only the **English alphabet** , **numbers** , and **some basic punctuation symbols**.

But nowadays, many advanced characters are introduced. To overcome these errors, we have uses the <abbr title="Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 1"><strong>ISO-8859-1</strong></abbr> and <abbr title="Universal Coded Character Set"><strong>UTF-8</strong></abbr> character codes which contain the **collections of character entities** , **math symbols** , **Greek letters** with **their entity numbers** and **names**.

## HTML Tags:

The **HTML tags** define that how the web browser will format and display the content. All HTML tags must be enclosed within the **angle brackets (<>)**. If you have used an **open tag <tag>** , then you need to use a close tag that is **enclosed with </tag>**. But some HTML tags are unclosed tags.

```

<html>(Opening tag)
    <head>(Contant tag -->)
        <title>This is the sample title of the Document</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <p>This is the sample content section.</p>
    </body>
    <footer>
        <p>This is the sample footer section</p>
    </footer>(<-- Contant tag)
</html>(Closing tag)

```

## Wrap-Up:

Here we have described some basic information about HTML and its usages. To learn more about HTML and its functions, stay connected with our site!!

## Frequently Asked Question Section:

**What is HTML?** 

HTML is an acronym **of HyperText Markup Language** which is used to structure a web page.

 
 
**Is HTML is a programming language?** 

No. HTML is not a programming Language. It is a markup language.

 
 
**How to save an HTML file?** 

The HTML files are saved with the extension of **“.html”** or **“.htm”**.

 
 
**What is meant by HTML Elements?** 

The HTML elements is the **fundamental** of HTML page which are defined using tags. It consists of a **stage tag <tag>** , **content** , and **close tag </tag>**.

 
 
**What is meant by HTML tags?** 

The HTML tags are used to structure the website content. The complete HTML tag including the **opening tag** , **enclosed tag content** , and the **closing tag**.

 
 
**What is meant by HTML attributes?** 

HTML attributes are a modifier of an HTML element type. It is used **inside the**  **opening tag** to control the element’s behavior.

 
 

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