HTML Basic Example:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<h1>My First Heading</h1>
<p>My first paragraph.</p>

</body>
</html>

The <!DOCTYPE> Declaration

The <!DOCTYPE> declaration represents the document type, and helps browsers to display web pages correctly. It must only appear once, at the top of the page (before any HTML tags). The <!DOCTYPE> declaration is not case sensitive. The <!DOCTYPE> declaration for HTML5 is:

<!DOCTYPE html>

HTML Headings

HTML headings are defined with the

to

tags.

defines the most important heading.

defines the least important heading:

<h1>This is heading 1</h1>
<h2>This is heading 2</h2>
<h3>This is heading 3</h3>
<h4>This is heading 1</h4>
<h5>This is heading 2</h5>
<h6>This is heading 3</h6>

HTML Paragraphs

<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
<p>This is another paragraph.</p>

HTML Links

<a href="https://itnursery.com">This is a link</a>

The link’s destination is specified in the href attribute. Attributes are used to provide additional information about HTML elements. You will learn more about attributes in a later chapter.

HTML Images

HTML images are defined with the tag. The source file (src), alternative text (alt), width, and height are provided as attributes:

<img src="https://itnursery.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/IN.jpg" alt="itnursery logo" width="104" height="142">

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