HTML Basics

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What does HTML stand for?

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Hypertext Markup Language

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What is the purpose of HTML?

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HTML lets us build our own web pages.

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What are some examples of platforms built with HTML?

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Facebook, Google, CodeHS, and every web page on the internet.

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What is HyperText?

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Text displayed on a computer that has links to other hypertext documents (hyperlinks).

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What is a Markup Language?

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A language that lets you annotate text to define how it should be displayed.

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What are HTML tags?

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Tags that mark up the text of a document to tell the browser how the text should be displayed.

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How are HTML tags enclosed?

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In angle brackets.

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Are HTML tags displayed on the resulting web page?

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No, they are not displayed on the resulting web page.

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What do HTML tags inform the browser about?

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They inform the browser about how certain text should be displayed.

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Where does the name of the tag go in HTML?

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The name of the tag goes in between the angle brackets.