What is HTML ?:
Hyper Text: Hypertext simply means "Text within Text." A text has a link within it, is a hypertext. Whenever you click on a link which brings you to a new webpage, you have clicked on a hypertext. Hyper Text is a way to link two or more web pages (HTML documents) with Each other.
Markup Language: A markup language is a computer language that is used to apply layout and formatting conventions to a text document. Markup language makes text more interactive and dynamic. It can turn text into images, tables, links, etc.
Web Page: A web page is a document which is commonly written in HTML and translated by a web browser. A web page can be identified by entering an UEL A Web page can be of the static or dynamic type. With the help of HTML only, we can crate static web pages.
Hence, HTML is a markup language which is used for creating attractive web pages with the help of styling, and which looks in a nice format on a web browser. An HTML document is made of many HTML tags and each HTML tag contains different content.
Example:
<!DOCTYPE>
<html>
<head>
<title>Web Page title</title>
</head>
<body>
<he1>Write Your First Heading</h1>
<p>Write Your First Paragraph</p>
</body>
</html>
<DOCTYPE>: It defines the document type or it instruct the browser about the version of HTML.
<html>: This tag informs the browser that it is an HTML document. Text between. html tag describes the web document. it is a container for all other elements of HTML except <!DOCTYPE>
<head>: It should be the first element inside the <html> element, which contains the metadata (information about the document). It Must be closed before the body tag opens.
<title>: As its name suggested, it is used to add title of that HTML page which appears at the top of the browser window. It must be placed inside the head tag and should close immediately.
<body>: Text between body tag describes the body content of the page that is visible to the end user. This tag contains the main content of the HTML document.
<he>: Text between <h1> tag describes the first level heading of the webpage.
<p>: Text between <p> tag describes the paragraph of the webpage.
Brief History of HTML: In the late 1980's a physicist, Tim Berners-Lee who was a contractor at CERN, proposed a system for CERN researchers. In 1989 he wrote a memo proposing an internet based hypertext system.
Tim Berners-Lee is know as the father of HTML. The first available description of HTML was a document called "HTML Tags" proposed by Tim in late1991. The latest version of HTML is HTML5. which we will learn later in the tutorial.
HTML Versions: Since the time HTML was invented there are lots of HTML versions in market, the brief introduction about the HTML version is given below:
HTML 1.0: The first version of HTML was 1.0 which was the barebones version of HTML language, and it was released in 1991.
HTML 2.0: This was the nest version which was released in 1995, and it was standard language version for website design. HTML 2.0 was able to support extra features such as form based flie upload, form elements such as text box, option button, etc.
HTML 3.2: HTML 3.2 version was published by W3C in early 1997. This version was capable of creating tables and providing support for extra options for from elements. It can also support a web page with complex mathematical equations. It became an official standard for any browser till January1997 . Today it is practically supported by most of the browsers.
HTML 4.01: HTML 4.01 version was released on December 1999 and it is a very stable version of HTML language. This version is the current official standard and it provides elements.
HTML 5 : HTML 5 is the newest version of Hyper Text Markup Language. The first draft of this version was announced in January 2008. There are two major organizations one is W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) and another one is WHATWG (Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group) which are involved in the development of HTML 5 version and still it is under development.
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