Hey Bisman! 😊

That’s such a thoughtful question — and you're not alone in wondering this!

HTML is called a markup language because its main job is to structure and display content on a webpage. It tells the browser things like:

• "This is a heading"
• "This is a paragraph"
• "This is a link or an image"

But HTML doesn't have logic — it can't make decisions, repeat actions, or respond to conditions like a programming language can.

For example, in a programming language (like Python or JavaScript), you can say:

if score > 50:
    print("You passed!")

HTML can’t do that kind of logic — it just marks up content so the browser knows how to show it.

So in short: HTML structures content, but it doesn’t “think” or “decide” — that’s why it’s not considered a programming language. 😊

You're asking awesome questions — keep going! You're learning fast! 🚀💡

So when you see something like , that little / just means the tag is self-closing — it doesn’t need an end tag like .

But guess what? Starting with HTML5, you don’t even need the / anymore. You can just write:

And it works the same! Super simple. 👍

HTML tags are like labels that tell the browser what each part of a webpage is.

For example, if you want to show a heading, you use a heading tag like this:

Apples

The

tag tells the browser that the text Apple is a heading and it should be big and bold.

Tags usually come in pairs: an opening tag like

and a closing tag like

Tags not visible on the page—just instructions for how to show things. Only the content is visible.

As you continue with the course, you'll learn plenty of tags, each with their own purpose.

Good question!

In HTML, attributes modify the behavior, appearance, or function of HTML elements. You’ll see them in various tags like , ,

A programming language is just a way for us to give instructions to a computer. It's like learning a new language but instead of talking to people, you're telling the computer what you want it to do.

Different programming languages (like Python, Java, C++) have different styles, and they all help you build things like apps, games, websites, and more.

You're doing great asking these questions, keep them coming!

Hi there! Linking pages in HTML is a fundamental skill that helps you create navigation between different web pages.

To link pages in HTML, you'll use the tag (known as the anchor tag). Here is how you can do it:

Programiz PRO

You can also link to another web page within the same project:

About Us

In this case, about.html is a page that's located in the same directory as the current document.

In the upcoming chapters, we will cover more of these in detail.

Feel free to ask if you have more questions or need further clarification.

In HTML, the slash (/) in a tag indicates that it is the closing tag for an element. This is required because HTML uses pairs of tags to define where an element starts and ends.

For example,

This is a paragraph.

Here,

marks the start of the paragraph, and

Without the closing

Hope this clears things up. Let me know if you have more questions.

HTML is called a markup language because it’s mainly used to structure and present content on a webpage, not to perform logic or calculations like a programming language does.

For example, HTML lets you define elements like headings, paragraphs, images, and links, but it can’t make decisions, loop, or perform calculations—things you would typically expect from a programming language like JavaScript, Python, or C++.

In HTML, you might write:

Welcome to my website!
This is a simple paragraph.
Visit Example

This tells the browser what to display and how to organize it, but there’s no logic like "if this happens, then do that".

In contrast, in a programming language like JavaScript, you could write:

let age = 18;
if (age >= 18) {
    console.log("You are an adult.");
}

Here, the code makes a decision based on the value of age, which HTML alone can't do.

In HTML, metadata refers to information about the webpage that isn't visible to users directly, but it provides important details to the browser and search engines.

Some common types of metadata include things like the page's title, description, keywords, author, and character encoding.

Metadata is usually placed inside the section of the HTML document, like this:

Since you're just getting started, you don't need to focus on metadata much. As you continue your web development journey, you'll gradually learn more about it and how it can help with SEO and other aspects of web development.

Hope this clears things up. Let me know if you have any confusion.

When working on a real project, you might organize your files in a structured way using folders inside other folders. This is what we mean by a nested directory structure.

For example:

website   
│── home  
│   │── index.html
│   │── images  
│   │   │── banner.png 

Here, banner.png is inside the images folder, which is inside the home folder, making it a nested directory structure.

Since index.html is in the home folder, you’d reference the image like this:

This tells the browser to look inside the images folder, which is in the same directory as index.html, to find banner.png.