HTML is standard markup language and it is used for web pages. Using HTML you can create own Website. HTML is easy to learn.
What is HTML ?
- HTML stands for standard markup language.
- HTML is used to describe structure of web page.
- HTML consist of a series of element.
- HTML elements tell the browser how to display the content.
- Elements of HTML 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
Basic structure of HTML:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>My First Heading</h1>
<p>My first paragraph.</p>
</body>
</html>
In the given example :
- The
<!DOCTYPE html>declaration defines this document to be HTML5 - The
<html>element is the root element of an HTML page - The
<head>element contains meta information about the document - The
<title>element specifies a title for the document - The
<body>element contains the visible page content - The
<h1>element defines a large heading - The
<p>element defines a paragraph
HTML tags
HTML tags are surrounded by angle brackets (<>).
for example: <tagname>//content</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 the start tag, but with a forward slash inserted before the tag name
Note: The start tag is also called opening tag, and the end tag the closing tag.
The purpose of a web browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari) is to read HTML documents and display them.
The browser does not display the HTML tags, but uses them to determine how to display the document:
Note: Only the content inside the <body> section (the white area above) is displayed in a browser.
The <!DOCTYPE> Declaration
- The
<!DOCTYPE>declaration represents the document type, and helps browsers to display web pages correctly. - It must only appear once, at the top of the page (before any HTML tags).
- The
<!DOCTYPE>declaration is not case sensitive. - The
<!DOCTYPE>declaration for HTML5 is:
HTML History
Since the early days of the World Wide Web, there have been many versions of HTML:
| Year | Version |
|---|---|
| 1989 | Tim Berners-Lee invented www |
| 1991 | Tim Berners-Lee invented HTML |
| 1993 | Dave Raggett drafted HTML+ |
| 1995 | HTML Working Group defined HTML 2.0 |
| 1997 | W3C Recommendation: HTML 3.2 |
| 1999 | W3C Recommendation: HTML 4.01 |
| 2000 | W3C Recommendation: XHTML 1.0 |
| 2008 | WHATWG HTML5 First Public Draft |
| 2012 | WHATWG HTML5 Living Standard |
| 2014 | W3C Recommendation: HTML5 |
| 2016 | W3C Candidate Recommendation: HTML 5.1 |
| 2017 | W3C Recommendation: HTML5.1 2nd Edition |
| 2017 | W3C Recommendation: HTML5.2 |
