Hyper Text Marked Language (HTML)

HTML is the standard markup language for creating Web pages. These webpage can then be viewed by anyone else connected to internet.

·         HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language.

·         HTML describe the structure of Web pages using markup.

·         HTML elements are the building blocks of HTML pages.

·         HTML elements are represented by tags.

·         HTML tags label pieces of content such as “heading”, “paragraph”, “table”, and so on.

·         Browsers do not display the HTML tags, but use them to render the content of the page.

How does it work?

HTML consists of a series of short codes typed into a text-file by the site author – these are the tags. The text is then saved as an html file, and viewed through a browser, like internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. This browser reads the file and translates the text into a visible form, hopefully rendering the page as the developer had intended. Writing your own HTML entails using tags correctly to create your vision. You can use anything from a rudimentary text-editor to a powerful graphical editor to create HTML pages.

What are HTML tags?

HTML tags are element names surrounded by angle brackets:

<tagname>content goes here…..</tagname>

·         HTML tags normally come in pairs like <p> and </P>

·         The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag

·         The end tag is written like that start tag, but with a forward slash inserted before the tag name

HTML version:

Since the early days of the web, there have been many versions of HTML:

Version                                                                                                        Year

HTML                                                                                                          1991

HTML 2.0                                                                                                             1995

HTML 3.2                                                                                                             1997

HTML 4.01                                                                                                           1999

XHTML                                                                                                                  2000

HTML5                                                                                                                  2014