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>
- Where are HTML tags written?
-> 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", it will be displayed in the browser.
- Advantages of HTML:-
-> It can be used in any operating system platform.
-> HTML is compatible with all major browsers and widely supported by web development tools.
-> Hyperlinking one document to another is easy in HTML.
-> It is simple to edit and fast to download documents.
-> HTML is free and independent of platforms and devices.
- Limitations:-
-> HTML is neither a programming language nor a desktop publishing tool.
-> The displayed file is static in nature and cannot be updated by any process.
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