HTML & CSS Practice 1/12

Your first page: a heading and a paragraph

A web page is just text with labels wrapped around it. The labels are called tags, and they tell the browser what a piece of text is - not what it should look like. <h1>Hello</h1> says "Hello is the main heading of this page". The browser already knows headings should look big and bold, so it draws it that way without being asked.

A tag comes in a pair. <h1> opens it, </h1> closes it, and the text sits between them. Forget the slash on the closing tag and the browser will not raise an error - it will just keep treating everything after it as a heading. That is worth knowing early: HTML almost never tells you that you are wrong. It guesses, draws something, and moves on.

The preview on the right is a real browser window. Change the text, press Run, and it redraws.

Your task: the page has a heading but nothing else. Add a paragraph under it, using <p> tags, that reads exactly I am learning HTML.

You'll practice:

Wrapping text in a tag pair so the browser knows what it is
Reading the preview as the answer to what you wrote

<h1>My first page</h1>