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Markup and Languages

HTML is a descriptive markup language. It is a way to describe the structure of a web page.

HTML files use a .html extension as they are hypertext documents that are created using hypertext markup language and transmitted to your computer via the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP).

List of common HTML tags. Source: knowitallninja.com See larger...

Key Features:

• The !DOCTYPE declaration which tells the web browser what version we’re using (the latest version is HTML5).
• The "html" element which actually declares the beginning and the end of the HTML document.
• The "body" element which contains all of the code that will actually appear within the browser. (There is normally a "head" element before this which has a different purpose).
• The "h1" and "p" tags which define a main heading and paragraph within our web page.

CSS or Cascading Style Sheets is how the formatting of a HTML page is defined.

Infact the page you are looking at right now is made with a CSS file in order for the background to be a certain colour, differant font and sizes of text, etc.

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