HTML

Html: Hyper Text Markup language

What actually an HTML means??... Who developed this language for the first time? Where is it been used??... In what way does it help an web developer??... Answers to these questions will end here.

Definition:
HTML is a MarkUp language used by web browsers in creating a website.

HTML helps you to create your own website. It is not a programming language as it name itself tells you its“Markup”… A Markup language consists of tags which are basically used as commands in publishing a web site.
The structured documents are created using tags, which are semantics used in formatting text such as headings, paragraphs, titles, header, images and so on. I have been speaking about tags what actually does it mean and in what format do they need to be written??..

HTML Tags:

HTML tags are keywords surrounded by angle brackets like . There is a format involved in using these tags, they come in pairs like and . Each is respectively called as start tag and end tag.

You were introduced to the world of HTML. Lets go in depth, starting of wit its origin.

History

In 1989, Physicist Tim Berners-Lee who was working as a contractor in CERN wrote a memo proposing an Internet-based hypertext system. Berners-Lee specified HTML and wrote the browser and server software in the last part of 1990.

Tim Berners-Lee

In the late year, along with Robert Cailliau made a joint request for funding this project to come alive but the project was not formally adopted by CERN. Now HTML is been standardized to many versions such as HTML 1.0, HTML 2.0 in the consequent years .

Now we shall study HTML with an example.

My First Heading

My first paragraph.

What all these tags tell you all about its start of an heading or paragraph or title. Once we have started with any tag it has to compulsorily end.

The element defines the body of the HTML document
The element has a start tag and an end tag
The element content is another HTML element (a paragraph). Similarly the tags refer.

You could think how actually a link is inserted in the content of a web page, its using attributes.

HTML Attributes

Attributes provide additional information about HTML elements.

HTML elements can have attributes
Attributes provide additional information about the element
Attributes are always specified in the start tag
Attributes come in name/value pairs like: name="value"

The link address is provided as an attribute:
This is a link

So what will the above statement look like on the web page??
Try yourself here.

Similarly formatting, styles, images forms, lists, colors, tables are done using tags.

Getting started with HTML

To get started with HTML what all you need is editors like front page or Dreamweaver. Once you have finished with editing you need to save the file having an extension either .htm or .html.

Publishing the content onto the site

This requires a protocol for the delivery of the HTML, ie., HTTP.