Introduction of HTML :

  • HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. 
  • HTML is the most widely used language on Web to develop web pages.
  • Web pages are also called HTML Documents. 
  • HTML is a useful for students and working professionals to become a great Software Engineer specially when they are working in Web Development Domain. 
  • HTML was developed with the intent of defining the structure of documents like headings, paragraphs, lists, and so on . 
  • HTML is being widely used to format web pages with the help of different tags available in HTML language.
  • HTML is the language interpreted by a browser. 
  • HTML was created by Berners-Lee in late 1991 but "HTML 2.0" was the first standard HTML specification which was published in 1995. 
  • HTML 4.01 was a major version of HTML and it was published in late 1999. 
  • Though HTML 4.01 version is widely used but currently we are having HTML-5 version which is an extension to HTML 4.01, and this version was published in 2012.

History Of HTML:

  • IBM showed the seen for HTML in the early 1980.
  • They wanted to set a documentation system in which one could mark the title, headings, paragraphs and font type selections , They called it General Mark-up Language (GML).
  • In 1986 the international Standardizing Organization (ISO) took up this concept and standardized it as Standard Generalized Mark-up Language (SGML).
  • In 1989 Tim Berners Lee and his team in the European laboratory called it HTML.

Advantages of learning HTML:

  1. Create Web site - You can create a website , if you know HTML well.
  2. Become a web designer - If you want to start a career as a professional web designer, HTML and CSS designing is a must skill.
  3. Learn other languages - Once you understands the basic of HTML then other related technologies like javascript, php, or angular are become easier to understand.

Applications of HTML:

  1. Web pages development - HTML is used to create pages which are rendered over the web. Almost every page of web is having html tags in it to render its details in browser.
  2. Internet Navigation - HTML provides tags which are used to navigate from one page to another and is heavily used in internet navigation.
  3. Responsive UI - HTML pages now-a-days works well on all platform like mobile, tabs, desktop or laptops for responsive design strategy.
  4. Offline support- HTML pages once loaded can be made available offline on the machine without any need of internet.
  5. Game development- HTML5 is useful in gaming development.

The basic structure of HTML Document:

        <html>
                    <head>
                            <title> 
                                    Your Title 
                             </title>
                    </head>
                    <body>
                             Documentation........
                    </body>
        </html>