What is HTML?
HTML is the basic foundation for a website. Its stand for Hyper Text Markup Language. HTML is used because a plain text file appears nicely formatted in a browser.
- Hyper Text means a text that you click to jump from one webpage to another webpage. In one word Hyper Text is a way to connect with different web pages.
- Markup Languale is a language that apply layout and formatting conventions to plain text. It is a collection of markup tags which are used to describe webpages.
Why HTML?
HTML is the core foundation of all webpages. Without HTML it is not possible to customize a website properly. Because of HTML the webpages are interesting to look at. HTML is also very important for search engine optimization. In a word for building a website, for designing the contents properly and for giving a wonderful outlook to a website HTML is needed.
History of HTML
In 1989, physicist Tim Berners-Lee wrote a memo proposing an internet-based hypertext system. He specified it as HTML and finally wrote the browser and server software in late 1990.
The first publicly description of HTML was a document called "HTML Tags". It was first mentioned by Tim Berners-Lee in late 1991.
HTML is a markup language that web browsers use to interpret and compose text, images, and other material into visual or audible web pages.
An Example of HTML
<html>
<head>
<title> Page Title </title>
</head>
<body>
<h1> This is a Heading. </h1>
<p> This is a paragraph. </p>
</body>
</html>
Run Example
Description of the Example:
DOCTYPE: It is not an HTML tag. A doctype defines which version of HTML/XHTML a document uses.
html: It is the root of the html document. It tells the browser that this is an HTML document
head: It is used to contain all the head element in the html file. It contains the meta, title, link, style etc tags.
title: It is used to define the title of the document which is found at the top of the browser window.
body: It contains the entire content of a page. It is required in every HTML document and there are only one <body> tag per page.
h1: It is called heading tag. there are six heading tags in HTML. Heading tags are used to define the heading of html document.
p: It is called paragraph tag. It is used to define paragraph content in HTML document.
Versions of HTML
| Version | Year of released |
|---|---|
| HTML 1.0 | 1991 |
| HTML 2.0 | 1995 |
| HTML 3.2 | 1997 |
| HTML 4.0 | 1998 |
| HTML 4.01 | 1999 |
| XHTML | 2000 |
| HTML 5 | 2014 |