HTML is for content

Every website is built from three languages working together: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This chapter introduces what each one does, starting with HTML.

HTML (short for HyperText Markup Language) holds the content of a page, namely its text and media.

HTML elements

You write HTML using elements, which indicate the kind of content you’re adding. Elements start with an opening tag, like <p> for paragraphs. End an element by writing its closing tag, which is its opening tag with an additional forward slash, like </p>.

Designing a website

This page is just plain HTML, which means there’s not much we can do to change how it looks. To give it some flair, we’ll need another programming language: CSS!