HTML is the standard markup language for creating Web pages.
What is HTML?
HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
HTML is the standard markup language for creating Web pages
HTML describes the structure of a Web page
HTML consists of a series of elements
HTML elements tell the browser how to display the content
HTML elements label pieces of content such as "this is a heading", "this is a paragraph", "this is a link", etc.
Example Explained
The
<!DOCTYPE html>declaration defines that this document is an HTML5 documentThe
<html>element is the root element of an HTML pageThe
<head>element contains meta information about the HTML pageThe
<title>element specifies a title for the HTML page (which is shown in the browser's title bar or in the page's tab)The
<body>element defines the document's body, and is a container for all the visible contents, such as headings, paragraphs, images, hyperlinks, tables, lists, etc.The
<h1>element defines a large headingThe
<p>element defines a paragraph
HTML History
Since the early days of the World Wide Web, there have been many versions of HTML:
| Year | Version |
| 1989 | Tim Berners-Lee invented www |
| 1991 | Tim Berners-Lee invented HTML |
| 1993 | Dave Raggett drafted HTML+ |
| 1995 | HTML Working Group defined HTML 2.0 |
| 1997 | W3C Recommendation: HTML 3.2 |
| 1999 | W3C Recommendation: HTML 4.01 |
| 2000 | W3C Recommendation: XHTML 1.0 |
| 2008 | WHATWG HTML5 First Public Draft |
| 2012 | http://whatwg.org/html/ |
| 2014 | http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/ |
| 2016 | W3C Candidate Recommendation: HTML 5.1 |
| 2017 | http://www.w3.org/TR/html51/ |
| 2017 | http://www.w3.org/TR/html52/ |
Structure of HTML File
<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<title>Document</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
