HTML - Introduction

 

Hyper Text Markup Language

·         HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the only markup language for creating web pages. It provides some titles, headings, paragraphs, lists, tables, embedded images, etc. to describe the structure of text-based information in HTML documents.

·         HTML is a straightforward Computer Coding Language. It was developed in the 90s. HTML is the basis of a web page, and the web page is the basis of a website. HTML uses 'tags' to create web documents.

·         HTML is a Hypertext Markup Language; it's a Predominant set of Markup tags which used to create the design of web pages.

·         HTML is the first language of web designing. CSS is also used along with HTML to improve the design of the web page further. JavaScript is used along with HTML to make web pages dynamic.

·         HTML is relatively easy to learn because every tag is predefined, so only we need to know the work of tags and its attributes.

·         Web browsers (Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and other web browsers) are software' to read HTML and to display webpage design as output.

·         You can write HTML in any simple editor like Notepad, Adobe Dreamweaver, Sublime, etc. are primarily used for writing and editing HTML.

·         .html or .htm are extensions is used for writing HTML file, so we can write HTML code in any editor, and can save as filename.html or filename.htm.

 

HTML History

HTML was created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in late 1991 but was not released officially, which was published in 1995 as HTML 2.0. HTML 4.01 was published in late 1999 and was a major version of HTML.

·         HTML is a very evolving markup language and has evolved with various versions updating. Long before its revised standards and specifications are carried in, each version has allowed its user to create web pages in the much easier and prettier way and make sites very efficient.

·         HTML 1.0 was released in 1993 with the intention of sharing information which can be readable and accessible via web browsers. But not much of the developers were involved in creating websites. So the language was also not growing.

·         Then comes the HTML 2.0, published in 1995; which contains all the features of HTML 1.0 along with that few additional features; which remained as the standard markup language for designing and creating websites until January 1997 and refined various core features of HTML.

·         Then comes the HTML 3.0, where Dave Raggett who introduced a fresh paper or draft on HTML. It included improved new features of HTML, giving more powerful characteristics for webmasters in designing web pages. But these powerful features of new HTML slowed down the browser in applying further improvements.

·         Then comes the HTML 4.01 which is widely used and was a successful version of HTML before HTML 5.0, which is currently released and used worldwide. HTML 5 can be said for as an extended version of HTML 4.01 which was published in the year 2012.

HTML Tags:

An HTML document consist of its basic building blocks which are:

Tags: An HTML tag surrounds the content and apply meaning to it. It is written between < and > brackets.

Attribute: An attribute in HTML provides extra information about the element, and it is applied within the start tag. An HTML attribute contains two fields: name & value.

Syntax

<tag name  attribute_name= " attr_value"> content </ tag name>

Elements: An HTML element is an individual component of an HTML file. In an HTML file, everything written within tags are termed as HTML elements.