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HTML's role in web design and development is to provide structure and meaning to content. In this video, you'll begin learning HTML's set of elements that describe sections of content.
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meaning to content.
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For example, a p tag identifies
content as a paragraph, and
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an h1 tag means that the text inside it
is the top level heading of the page.
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When you write markup that clearly
communicates the meaning of your content,
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it is said that you're
writing semantic markup.
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Now you'll hear the word
semantic markup or
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semantic HTML mentioned a lot in web
design and front end web development.
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Semantics is the meaning behind words,
phrases, or any text.
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Now semantics, as it relates to HTML,
is the idea that markup should describe
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