Your first web pages
What HTML is, how a browser reads it, the frame every page shares, and how to structure text so that both people and machines can follow it.
About 4 hours of study
Learning objectives
- Explain what HTML is for
- Write a complete document
- Structure text with headings and paragraphs
Lessons
- 1
What HTML is and how a browser reads it
HTML describes what each part of a page is. Learn what tags and elements are, how a browser turns your text into a page, and write your first one.
- 2
The skeleton of every page
Every proper HTML document has the same frame: a doctype, html, head and body. Learn what each part is for, and why the charset and viewport lines matter.
- 3
Headings, paragraphs and text
Structure writing with six levels of heading and paragraphs, mark words as important or emphasised, and write special characters safely with entities.
Module practice
- Say hello in HTMLEasy
- Repair the overlapping tagsMedium
- Mark up a short articleHard
- Build the frameEasy
- Put things where they belongMedium
- Make a page ready for the worldHard
- Outline a recipeEasy
- An address and a formulaMedium
- Repair a broken outlineHard