The Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML)
General Information:
-> HTML is a formatting language that's used for static web page design.
-> It's not a programming language.
-> There are mainly three types of World Wide Web (WWW) documents or pages.
-> Static web pages, Dynamic web pages and Active web pages.
-> JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) and Hypertext Pre-processor (PHP) also known as Personal Home Page, uses for designing the Dynamic / Active web pages.
-> XML: Extensible Markup Language: It has the same functionality as like HTML, but XML provides flexibility to the developer. It is used to transport data from one application or script to another.
HTML Tags:
-> The html tags are categorized into a container tag or an empty tag.
Container Tags:
Tags comes in pair with an opening tag and closing tag, called container tags.
-> Opening tags indicating the start of the formatting. e.g. <b> = Opening tag for bold the text.
-> Closing tags indicating the end of the formatting. e.g. </b> = Closing tag for bold the text.
Empty Tags:
In contrast, an empty tag has only an opening tag.
e.g. <br> = Break tag: It is used to break the line or new-line.
Structure of HTML:
Note: HTML is not case-sensitive. Its tag may be written in upper case or lower case.
<html>
<comment> This section used to identify the page as a web page </comment>
<head>
<title>
The optional Section will appear in the title bar of the web browser.
</title>
</head>
<body>
The actual content of the document.
</body>
</html>
Open a text editor / notepad -> Write the above tags to your opened text editor -> Save the text editor using (ctrl+s) as filename.html in any folder of your computer -> Go to the folder -> "double click" on "flilename.html".
