Introduction To Web & Html !

WEB The web is a place where we can access multiple web pages. It consists of a lot of pages that can be accessed by a web browser like Chrome, Firefox, Brave, etc. It is a common name for the World Wide Web or www. A web page is a document that is displayed on the web browser. A web page is created using pure Html (Hypertext Markup Language) by the developers. A website is a collection of multiple web pages. Some famous websites are Facebook.com, Instagram.com, Hashnode.com, etc. A web server is nothing but an online computer that hosts these web pages on the web or the internet so that anyone and everyone can access them. Some famous web servers are Apache Web Server, Nginx, Sun Java System Web Server, etc. Apache Web Server is the most famous one and is widely used by the industry. It is an open source and is freely available. It provides secure, stable, smooth, efficient, and extensible HTTP servers. Live Servers: Live Servers are small development servers with live reload capability. This is a server that simply serves the working directory and its subdirectories on the web.

HTML HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language released in 1993 by a group of people from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). HTML is the language that is used to create web pages or websites. HTML is used to structure the website and display the content on the website. The contents which are displayed on the web page are been created via HTML elements and tags. Some HTML tags are h1,h2,..,h6 tag for heading, p tag for paragraphs, etc. HTML tags and elements are not the same. HTML tags contain an open tag followed by a tag name and a closing tag. Example

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HTML elements contain an open tag followed by a tag name then some content and then a closing tag. Example

Hello World!

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Hi ! this is a p or paragraph element.