Introduction to HTML
What is HTML?
- HTML is an initialism for “HyperText Markup Language”.
- It was created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1993.
- It is the language of the web.
- 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 Structure
HTML is organized into a family tree structure. HTML elements can have parents, grandparents, siblings, children, grandchildren, etc.
Example
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Here Write the Page Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Write Heading</h1>
<p>Write paragraph.</p>
</body>
</html>
Features of HTML
- It is platform-independent.
- It is a markup language.
- It is interpreted language
- It can be integrated with other languages like CSS, JavaScript etc.
- Images, videos, and audio can be added to a web page.
- Hypertext can be added to the text.