{ "id": 4147933, "title": "A Beginner's Guide to Starting with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript", "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/29/a-beginners-guide-to-starting-with-html-css-and-javascript", "topic": "tech", "section": "Tech", "published": "2026-08-29T08:21:21.000Z", "source": { "name": "Dev.to", "slug": "dev-to", "url": "https://dev.to/bhadramohit/a-beginners-guide-to-starting-with-html-css-and-javascript-2paj" }, "original_language": "en", "account": "

HTML

\nHTML (HyperText Markup Language) defines the structure of a webpage. It does not contain any logic or calculations – it simply organizes content using tags.\n\nThe basic structure of an HTML document consists of three main parts:\n
    \n
  1. !DOCTYPE html – tells the browser this is an HTML5 document. It must be the first line.
    2. \n
  2. html lang=\"en\" – the root element that wraps everything on the page. The lang attribute helps screen readers and search engines determine the language.
    3. \n
  3. head – contains metadata that does not affect what users see. It includes character encoding, page title, linked CSS and JavaScript files, and SEO tags.
    4. \n
  4. body – this is where all the visible content goes, such as headings, paragraphs, images, and other elements.
    5. \n
\n\nWithin the , tags specify elements. A tag is the syntax itself (e.g.,

), while an element includes the tag plus its content and closing tag (e.g.,

This is a paragraph.

). Attributes provide additional information inside the opening tag, like href for links or id for uniquely identifying elements. Most tags come in pairs like

...

, except for self-closing tags like and
which do not wrap content.\n\nSemantic tags such as
,