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Introduction and Tutorial to HTML5

Introduction and Tutorial to HTML5

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Greetings to all! In this post from Kuasai Teknologi, we’ll discuss the basics of HTML. HTML is a vast topic, but we’ll focus on the core points to keep things clear.

What is HTML?

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the language used to display content on the web. It is an open, community-driven language not owned by any single entity, developed through global collaboration.

An HTML document is fundamentally a text file that can be edited in any text editor. It consists of various elements defined by “tags” wrapped in < and > symbols.

1. Introduction

HTML provides the structure for web content. It often works alongside Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for formatting and JavaScript for interactivity. Regardless of whether a site is built with PHP, JSP, or any other back-end language, the final output delivered to the browser is pure HTML.

While originally designed for scientists to exchange technical documents, HTML’s simplicity made it the go-to language for building web pages. Today’s HTML5 allows for sophisticated, highly interactive websites that are supported by all major modern browsers.

Basic Structure of HTML

An HTML element begins with an opening tag, followed by the content, and ends with a closing tag (which includes a /). Elements can be nested within each other. A standard document looks like this:

Standard HTML Code Image 1

Indentations (whitespace) are used to make the code more readable, but the browser ignores them, so they aren’t strictly required.

A document starts with <html> and ends with </html>, containing a <head> and a <body>. The <head> holds the <title>, which appears in the browser’s tab.

Browser Output

When you run the code from Image 1 in a browser, here is the result:

Browser Output Image 2

The title “This is the HTML document title” corresponds to what we wrote inside the <title> element. Similarly, everything written inside the <body> element appears as the main content on the web page.

That wraps up our basic introduction to HTML! Stay tuned to Kuasai Teknologi for more articles and video tutorials coming soon on our YouTube channel. Don’t forget to subscribe!

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