- HTML is the standard hyper text markup language.
- HTML, ML means markup language.
- Markup language means, its represented by tags.
- HTML is markup language so its elements are represented by tags.
- Basically use for creating Web pages.
Sample HTML Document Structure
<!DOCTYPE html> this tag defines web page to be HTML5 or not.
<html> root tag of HTML web page.
<head> this tag contains meta information about the web page.
<title> this tag define a title for web page.
<body> this tag contains actual visible page content for web page.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Title Of Web Page</title>
</head>
<body>
This is sample html web page.
</body>
</html>
- HTML tags enclosed by triangular bracket <>
- The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag.
- The end tag is written like the start tag, but with a forward slash inserted before the tag name.
Ex. <body> first tag & </body> end tag.
Different HTML version are
HTML
HTML 2.0
HTML 3.2
HTML 4.01
XHTML
HTML5
We will see features of all versions later post.