HTML: Let's create some content!

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The content of web pages is created using a language called HTML, which stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. HTML is a language that uses tags to create a basic layout. For example, a paragraph will be given a tag that tells the computer it is a paragraph. An image will be given a tag that tells the computer it is an image, and so on.

By building a web page up in this manner it allows for understandable content layout. For example you wouldn't put your heading before it's corresponding paragraph on paper, so you wouldn't do in HTML.

Now let's look at a simple bit of code:

<p>This is a simple paragraph.</p>

When you bring up the text editor window you can see on the left the code, and on the right how it is displayed by the browser.

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