July 22, 2018
Chetan Velhal
HTML Introduction
HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language, which is the
most widely used language on Web to develop web pages. HTML was created by
Berners-Lee in late 1991 but "HTML 2.0" was the first standard HTML
specification which was published in 1995. HTML 4.01 was a major version of
HTML and it was published in late 1999. Though HTML 4.01 version is widely used
but currently we are having HTML-5 version which is an extension to HTML 4.01,
and this version was published in 2012.
What is HTML?
- HTML is the standard markup language for creating Web pages.
- HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
- HTML describes 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
Hypertext refers to the way in which Web pages (HTML
documents) are linked together. Thus, the link available on a webpage is called
Hypertext.
As its name suggests, HTML is a Markup Language which means
you use HTML to simply "mark-up" a text document with tags that tell
a Web browser how to structure it to display.
Originally, HTML was developed with the intent of defining
the structure of documents like headings, paragraphs, lists, and so forth to
facilitate the sharing of scientific information between researchers.
Now, HTML is being widely used to format web pages with the
help of different tags available in HTML language.
A Simple HTML Document
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>My first heading</h1>
<p>My first paragraph</p>
</body>
</html>
Output :
