HTML Introduction
About HTML
HTML is the standard markup language for creating Web pages and it stands for Hyper Text Markup Language.
It describes the structure of a Web page and consists of series of elements that tells the browser how to display the content.
HTML Elements
Each HTML element is defined by a start tag, content, and and end tag.
Example:
<tagname> Content </tagname>
The element is everything from the start to the end of the tag.
Example:
<p>Hello world!</p>
In this element <p> is the starting tag, Hello World! is the element content and the end tag is </p>
However there HTML elements with no content. These empty elements do not have an end tag.
HTML Page Structure
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is a heading</h1>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
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</body>
</html>
Inside the body section will be the content displayed in the browser. Content inside <title> element will be shown in the browser's title bar.
History of HTML
1989 Tim Berners-Lee invented www
1991 Tim Berners-Lee invented HTML
1993 Dave Raggett drafted HTML+
1995 HTML Working Group defined HTML 2.0
1997 W3C Recommendation: HTML 3.2
1999 W3C Recommendation: HTML 4.01
2000 W3C Recommendation: XHTML 1.0
2008 WHATWG HTML5 First Public Draft
2012 WHATWG HTML5 Living Standard
2014 W3C Recommendation: HTML5
2016 W3C Candidate Recommendation: HTML 5.1
2017 W3C Recommendation: HTML5.1 2nd Edition
2017 W3C Recommendation: HTML5.2
Notes:
We will discover HTML more in-depth in the following articles and learn more about various HTML Elements.