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