HTML
The HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language is developed by Tim Berners-Lee in1990, is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. The HTML is the combination of Hypertext and Markup language. In which the Hypertext defines the link between the web pages and the Markup language is used to define the text document within tag which defines the structure of web pages. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript. It describes the structure of a web page, semantically and originally included cues for the appearance of the document. Web browsers receive the HTML documents from a web server or from local storage and render the documents into multimedia web pages. HTML elements are the basic building blocks of HTML pages ,which are described by tags, written inside angle brackets. The HTML provides a means to create structured documents by denoting the structural semantics for text such as headings, paragraphs, lists, links, quotes and other items. The HTML is used to annotate text so that a machine can understand it and handle text accordingly. Most of the markup (e.g. HTML) languages are human readable.The language uses tags to define what manipulation has to be done on the text.The first version of HTML is HTML 1.0. But the first standard version of HTML is HTML 2.0 which was published in 1999.
Structure of an HTML Document
The <!DOCTYPE html> declaration specifies the HTML version used in the document. All HTML documents should start with this declaration so that the browsers can render the page complies with HTML standards. All the content on the webpage is written between <html> </html> tags. The <html> element is used to give information to the browsers that it is an HTML document. The <head> element contains metadata (data about the HTML document), character set, document title, styles, etc. This data is not displayed to viewers. The <title> displays the title of the website in the browser tab when the page is loaded. The title is written between <title> </title> tags.The <body>element contains the content of the webpage (text, images, videos, etc). The content is written between <body> </body>.Heading elements contain different types of headings. There are six heading levels – <h1> to <h6>, where <h1> is the most important tag and <h6> least important tag.The <p> element contains paragraphs of the text. The content is written between <p> and </p> tags.
