1 introduction to html
Introduction to HTML:
HTML is a Hypertext Markup Language. This language is used to prepare web pages, which are used in Internet to exchange data and information. HTML was developed by Tim-Berners Lee of Switzerland in 1990, who was a networking specialist at CERN.HTML is not a programming language, it is a markup language. A markup language is a set of markup tags that are used to create webpages. You can describe layout and format of text, pictures, graphics, sound and movie clips in the webpages by using these HTML tags. The markup tags tell the web browser how to display the page for the user. Webpages are also called HTML document. So, we can say that HTML is a building blocks of web documents.
Types of web pages:
There are two types of web pages in general. They are static web pages and dynamic web pages. Static web pages show the same content each time they are viewed whereas dynamic we pages have content that can be change each time they are accessed. The dynamic pages are typically written in scripting languages such as PHP, ASP, Pearl, etc.We use Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, etc to read HTML documents and display them as webpages. The browser does not display the HTML tags, but uses the tags to interpret the content of the page. The collection of webpage is called website.
Different tags with their attributes are used to develop HTML documents or webpages.
HTML Tags:
HTML tags are all the keywords or commands used in HTML. They are surrounded by angle brackets like <html>. The tags tell the browser how to display document in the webpages. The HTML tags normally appear in pairs like <p> and </p>. Th first tag (<p> is called start tag or opening tag and the second tag(</p>) is called closing tag or end tag. These tags are not case sensitive, for example <HEAD> and <head> gives the same meaning.Mainly there are two types of tag. They are:
- Container tags (paired tags)
- Empty tags (singular tags)
Features of HTML
- HTML is easy and simple to use.
- HTML supports, controls and navigates to read document easily.
- HTML is supported by different text editors like Notepad, Wordpad, etc.
- HTML supports different hyperlinks and image format.
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