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HTML for Beginners – Simple & Practical Guide

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By: Sajid A. Rabby
🗓️ Nov 15, 2025 • 0 words

1️⃣ What Is HTML (In Human Language)?

HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. It’s not a programming language – it’s a structure language.

Every website you see – Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, your portfolio – all of them use HTML as the skeleton of the page. CSS adds design, JavaScript adds behavior, but HTML is the basic structure.

Think of HTML as the “building blocks” of a web page: headings, paragraphs, images, buttons, forms, etc.

2️⃣ How a Web Page Actually Works

Very high level:

  1. You write HTML in a file like index.html.
  2. You open it in a browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, etc.).
  3. The browser reads your HTML and shows it visually as a web page.

You don’t need any heavy software to start – only:

3️⃣ HTML File Basic Structure

Every proper HTML page follows a basic structure like this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <title>My First Web Page</title>
</head>
<body>
  <h1>Hello, world!</h1>
  <p>This is my first HTML page.</p>
</body>
</html>

🔍 Quick breakdown

First practice: create a folder, make a file called index.html, paste the template above, and open it in your browser.

4️⃣ HTML Tags & Attributes – The Core Idea

HTML is made of tags. Most tags come in pairs:

<tagname> Content here </tagname>

Example:

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

Attributes

Attributes give extra information to a tag – like an ID, class, href, src, etc.

<a href="https://sajidrabby.com">Visit my portfolio</a>

5️⃣ Headings & Paragraphs

Headings are used for titles and sections. There are 6 levels:

<h1>Main Page Title</h1>
<h2>Big Section</h2>
<h3>Sub Section</h3>
<h4>Smaller heading</h4>
<h5>Even smaller</h5>
<h6>Tiny heading</h6>

Paragraphs use <p>:

<p>This is a normal paragraph of text in HTML.</p>
Best practice: Use only one <h1> per page for the main title. It’s good for SEO and structure.

6️⃣ Links, Images & Lists – The Most Used Elements

🔗 Links

<a href="https://example.com" target="_blank">Open in new tab</a>

🖼 Images

<img src="profile.jpg" alt="My profile photo">

📋 Lists

Ordered (numbered) list:

<ol>
  <li>First step</li>
  <li>Second step</li>
</ol>

Unordered (bulleted) list:

<ul>
  <li>Apple</li>
  <li>Banana</li>
</ul>

7️⃣ Div, Span & Semantic Tags

<div> = block container (takes full width).

<span> = inline container (only content width).

<div>
  <h2>About Me</h2>
  <p>I am an IT support specialist and web developer.</p>
</div>

<p>This is <span>inline text</span> inside a paragraph.</p>

Semantic tags (modern HTML)

Better structure and SEO:

8️⃣ Forms – Basics You Must Know

Forms are used to collect data (login, contact, search, etc.). Backend is required to really submit data, but front-end structure starts with HTML.

<form action="/submit" method="POST">
  <label>Name:</label>
  <input type="text" name="name" placeholder="Enter your name">

  <label>Email:</label>
  <input type="email" name="email" required>

  <button type="submit">Send</button>
</form>

Common input types:

9️⃣ Comments & Indentation – Writing Clean HTML

Comments help you and other developers understand sections:

<!-- This is a comment, it will not show in the browser -->

Indentation example:

<div class="card">
  <h2>Title</h2>
  <p>Description text here...</p>
</div>
Clean HTML = easier to debug, easier to maintain, easier to upgrade later with CSS/JS.

🔟 Simple HTML Practice Plan (7 Days)

Here’s a small routine you can follow:

✅ Final Thoughts – Where HTML Fits in Full Stack

If you want to become a full stack developer, HTML is your first building block. After this, you’ll go deeper into:

But no matter how advanced you go, HTML stays with you forever. So invest a few days to really understand it – not just copy–paste.

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