HTML Introduction
Hyper Text Mark-up Language is referred to as HTML.The World Wide Web’s document format is HTML. Web pages are created using HTML files, which are simply text documents with the file extensions.html or.htm.
HTML Brief History
HTML has changed a lot since it was first introduced in late 1991. Mosaic was the first popular browser for efficiently exploring the Internet when it was originally released as an Internet draft in 1993. HTML 2.0, the first official HTML standard, was published in 1995. The stable version, HTML 4.01, was published in December 1999. The most recent HTML specification, HTML 5, will soon be supported by a large number of browsers.
You will get a solid foundation for developing professional-level web design abilities by learning the principles of website creation from the modules that follow.
Major Versions
HTML 2.0
HTML 3.2
HTML 4.01
HTML 5
The HTML5 standard that is now in use is a working draft that has not yet been published. Although HTML5 is still being developed, many of the new HTML5 components and APIs are supported by all of the main browsers. Its main goal has been to make the language better by supporting the newest multimedia while maintaining human readability and computer and device consistency.
What is an HTML Tag ?
Any text enclosed between less than (<) and greater than signs (>) is an HTML tag
e.g. <html>
HTML Document Structure
