HTML
Hyper Text Markup Language, or HTML, refers to a markup language developed specifically for web pages. This technology, considered a web standard and forming the foundation of the internet, has continuously evolved since the 1990s.
What is HTML?
HTML is used to define the structure of websites. It employs language-specific tags to indicate elements such as text, tables, images, and links on a website.
At a basic level, HTML is sufficient to create a simple web page. Using this markup language, you can create documents that web browsers can interpret. In the early days of the internet, static web pages created with HTML were considered adequate, but today, to build visually rich and dynamic websites, HTML is used in conjunction with other technologies like CSS for styling and JavaScript or PHP for programming.
What is HTML Used For?
The purpose of HTML is to mark elements on a web page for web browsers. HTML tags are used to create HTML elements in web pages. To display web pages, browsers first analyze the page's source code. With the help of HTML tags, the browser is guided to identify sections of a page, such as where a paragraph starts, where an image is located, or where links are placed.
Examples of HTML Tags
The most commonly used elements on a website are text, images, and links. Some commonly used HTML tags include:
- <html> ... </html> is used to indicate that a file is an HTML document. Everything within these tags is interpreted as HTML.
- <title> ... </title> specifies the title of the web page.
- <h1> ... </h1> indicates a heading. HTML allows for six different levels of headings, with H1 being the largest.
- <p> ... </p> is used to mark paragraphs. This is often used to break long texts into separate sections.
- <a href=""url""> link </a> creates a link from the text ""link"" to a specified URL on a web page.
- <img src=""image_address.jpg"" /> is used to add images to web pages.
The History of HTML
The first version of HTML was developed in the 1990s by Tim Berners-Lee, known as the founder of the internet. In 1995, a group of developers from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), which worked on standards for the internet, developed HTML 2.0. After the release of HTML 2.0 on November 24, 1995, control of HTML was transferred to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in 1996. W3C released the third version of HTML on January 14, 1997. HTML 4 was released on December 18, 1997.
In 2000, HTML 4.01 became an ISO/IEC international standard. The latest version, HTML5, had its first W3C-approved and consistent release on October 28, 2014. HTML5, the most current version, has new tags, elements, and multimedia support to meet modern needs.
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