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An introduction to HTML - the Language of the Web

HTML - HyperText Markup Language a language of the world wide web. Every information on the world wide web is in HTML. It is a simple markup language that anyone can learn. So, what do you need to learn HTML? The answer is quite simple.

1. Basic knowledge of using a personal computer (like creating folders and files, copy, cut, paste, edit).
2. A basic text editor. All personal computers comes with a text editor (like Notepad for Windows, TextEdit in Mac, gedit in Linux with GNOME etc). You can also use other more advanced text editor if you have like Adobe Dream Weaver, or if you prefer the free ones just search online. But a very basic one will do.
3. A browser - All modern PC will come with a browser in build (internet explorer for Windows, Safari for Mac). You can also download a third party browser like Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. The browser is like a channel to browse the net, or to see your HTML pages comes to life.

So, the above three are the only requirement to kick-start you to learn HTML. Here is a peek of an HTML document - go ahead enter the following code in your text editor and save it with a extension of .html.


Now, after saving the file, just open the file in your browser and observe. We'll learn about the different parts of the codes in the HTML section.