Introductory activities for HTML5 practice. My first ever contact with web development!
HTML is a markup language for structuring websites. It is not a programming language, as is JavaScript.
In these first activities, I learned about basic tags in HTML.
- Part 1: First HTML page, using the
<header>tag, containing<meta />and<link />tags, including Open Graph, cannonical and alternate links, and the<body>tag, containing other basic tags for text, image and tables. - Part 2: The
<form>tag, and a basic example of the<math>tag. - Part 3: Multimedia tags.
An HTML tag is a word between angular brackets, like <html>, <div> or <anything>. An HTML element is made up of an opening tag, some text, and a closing tag (the same word as the opening tag with a slash before it e.g. </anything>). An empty element has no closing tag or enclosed text content, such as <img> or <input>. Empty tags may also be written with a blank space and slash before the second angular bracket e.g. <img />.
All you need is any text editor to write your HTML pages, and a web browser to run them.
- Write and save your code on a file with a .html extension.
- Open the file using any web browser. Note that older web browsers may not support modern HTML resources. Check out MDN's browser compatibility data repository for more details.