Welcome back, everyone, to this section of the course, we're going to be discussing the very basics
of HTML.
Now, each time L stands for Hypertext Markup language and to really understand each HTML, let's talk
about that term markup language, markup language just means that it that is, the language includes
metadata for annotating the document that is the web page.
And this metadata is actually going to be visually distinguishable from how the user actually sees the
document when it actually is rendered in the browser.
So what do I mean by that?
Let's take an example.
When you visit a web page like the web page, you're watching this video on, you're going to notice
that there's text and content on the page, but you're also going to notice that there's actually text
at the top of the tab.
So there's going to be a difference between telling the document to send text to the body of the website
versus having a little bit of text there at the very top of the tab.
How does each smell actually do this?
Well, in order to actually tell the browser which text is going to go, where in our HTML document,
what we do is we mark up the language and in HTML, these sort of markups are called instructions in
the form of tags.
So for example, if we wanted to define a title in a tab, we would wrap it with some markup language
that would simply be a tag called the title tag.
And you'll notice that there's also a body tag, which defines the text on the web page.
You can see a pattern here begin to merge.
We actually define the tags within less than and greater than symbols.
And then you also define an opening tag and then a closing tag.
You'll notice the closing tags that has the tags at the end have a forward slash.
And that's the very basics of how tags are going to work.
And this section is just going to discuss a few of the different tags that are available for us.
So we're going to focus on understanding the most important and basic HTML content and tags.
And just in general, HTML documents are structured.
Later on, we're going to see that Django can actually insert and automatically create a lot of this
HTML content for us, and we'll have a variety of HTML template files, as we'll call them later on.
There are able to interact and inherit from one another.
But to understand what Django actually ends up creating for us, we need to understand the basic HTML
first in order to fully understand those documents.
So in this section, we're going to have a brief overview of basic tags.
That is how an HTML document is structured and how we can actually see that source each HTML in a browser.
And then we'll talk about things like lists, divs and span's attributes, tables and forms.
We're not going to dive too deep into a lot of these because as I mentioned later, when we learn about
Django, a lot of these are going to be automatically created for us.
We just need to know enough syntax of how each HTML works in order to be able to read it later on.
And each HTML is probably one of the simplest things we're going to be learning throughout this course.
It's actually pretty easy to pick up.
OK, let's get started.
I'll see you at the next lecture.