Understanding HTML

HTML stands for Hyper Text Mark-Up Language which allows the users to create web pages. It includes text graphics. Using HTML, we can add links to the web pages.  It is the most commonly used language to write web pages. This language is Easy to understand and modify and provides a more flexible way to design web pages with taxes. Graphics, videos, and sound can be made and imported to give an attractive look to the web pages.

HISTORY OF HTML     

IBM is the company that laid the Foundation for the beginning of HTML in 1980. initially, it was known as GML (General Mark-up Language). later In 1986, the General Mark-up Language got ISO Standardization and was renamed as SGML(Standard Generalized Mark-up Language). In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee and his team designed this language and named it as HTML(Hyper Text Mark-up Language).

Structure of HTML Document

The general Structure of an HTML document has two sections:  Head and Body.

The Head section contains the Title that identifies the first part of an HTML coded document.

The body section is where we do most of the work. It  contains text graphics, and other HTML element that provide control and formatting of a page like font, paragraph, list and other element .The general format of an HTML document is :-

<HTML>

<HEAD>

<TITLE>

Title of the web page

</TITLE>

</HEAD>

<BODY>

Text where we want to show our web page and <BR> will be given here to break the

line.

</BODY>

</HEAD>

                                    


Some Important points about HTML:-

·     HTML is a Tag-based language. Tag is an element, which instruct the web browser to show and How to show. Each tag giving a special instruction is enclosed in angle brackets < >.

·      The HTML document starts with <HTML> tag and ends with </HTML > tag.

     The <HEAD> tag is the HTML document header.It lies above the <BODY> tag and Just below the <HTML> tag.

·    The <BODY> tag contains the text which gets displayed on the web page along with other tags and attributes.

·      Every opening tag must have a closing tag.

·       The tags are not case-sensitive.