From the course: HTML for Programmers
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What is HTML?
- [Instructor] HTML stands for hypertext markup language, and is a foundational technology for building websites. HTML is used to define the structure of webpage content. HTML got its name from the capability of connecting webpages to one another. HTML plays nicely with the other two core pillars of web technologies, CSS and JavaScript. These three technologies together provide the base of every website on the internet. While HTML describes the content structure, CSS, or cascading style sheets, describes the content appearance and JavaScript describes the content behavior. HTML consists of sets of elements or tags that encapsulate content to change its meaning. For example, text wrapped in a link tag gives the encapsulated content the functionality of a link, that when clicked, will navigate the user to a section or a different webpage. Having a good understanding of HTML will allow you to write clean and accessible web…
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