CAW: Lesson - HTML Vocabulary

&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;: Tells the computer that this is a document written in HTML.
&lt;html&gt;: Indicates your code is written in HTML.
&lt;head&gt;: Contains information about your web page.
&lt;body&gt;: This contains all the main content of the web page.
&lt;p&gt;: Allows sentences to be grouped into separate paragraphs.

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HTML Vocabulary

Let's learn some terms about HTML and website design, then watch a video to see how those terms are programmed or coded to create a web page.

Website Vocabulary

HTML: HyperText Markup Language - used to create the content of a web page.
Heading: A title or summary for a document or section of a document.
Tags: The special set of characters that tells the machine where the start and end of HTML elements and what type they are. A few common tags are:
- <!DOCTYPE html>: Tells the computer that this is a document written in HTML.
- <html>: Indicates your code is written in HTML.
- <head>: Contains information about your web page.
- <body>: This contains all the main content of the web page.
- <p>: Allows sentences to be grouped into separate paragraphs.

Video Lesson

Let's watch the video Let's Learn GA - HTML Intro from Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB). This video will show us firsthand how these simple terms and tags are used to create on the platform of the World Wide Web so that you can say, ”Hello, World!”

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