HTML
Contents:
- Introduction
-Features
-Tags
-Types of tags
- Basic HTML tags
Introduction
HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language which is used to create web pages. It is the building blocs of all basic websites. It is the language developed by Tim Berners Lee in 1990 in Geneva, Switzerland for presenting information on the internet. In 1994, World Wide Web Consortium(W3C) was formed and this is the body, which controls the HTML standards at present.
Features
-HTML is not a programming language lie QBASIC, C ,C++. It is a markup language.
-HTML uses markup tags to describe the format and layout of text, images, etc in a webpage.
HTML Tags
HTML is a Tag based language. A tag is a piece of code that instructs a web browser what to display and how to display. A web browser interprets HTML tags. HTML tags are used to control the appearance, layout, and flow of the web page. By convention, all HTML tags begin with an open left angle bracket (<).
Note : HTML tags can be written either in uppercase or lowercase, so tags are not case sensitive. <HTML> is the same as <html>. For consistency, you must use either the upper or lower case.
Types
a) Container tag :
The container tag has both opening and closing tag. It is also called paired tag. It comes in pairs with opening and closing tags.
Syntax :
<opening tag>...........content to display............</closing tag>
b) Empty tag :
The empty tag is used by itself. It is also called singular or stand-along tag. It does not have a companion tag.
Syntax :
<an empty tag>
Basic HTML tags
- The <html> tag
- The <head> tag
- The <tittle> tag
- The <body> tag
