HTML Introduction

  

What is HTML5?

  • HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language
  • Hypertext is Text which contains links to other texts
  • markup language it's a way to give instructions to the computer about how content should be organized and displayed.
  • Hypertext --> Hyperlink
  • HTML is the standard markup language for creating Web pages
  • HTML describes the structure of a Web page

Syntax:



<opening tag> content <closing tag>
<h1>Content</h1>


  • The HTML file is saved in the .html extension.
  • The default home page should be index.html

Features Of HTML



Better Consistency

  • The new HTML 5 will provide far better consistency in terms of HTML code which is used to design a web page
Cleaner Code
  • HTML 5 will allow developers to make use of cleaner code. New structural elements like article tags and section tags are introduced replacing most div tags
Client-side database
  • HTML 5 will offer a new SQL-based database API to facilitate data storage locally i.e. client side
Geo-Location
  • Any HTML 5 compatible browser-based application can be directly used for finding out a location with the new HTML 5 geo-location APIs.
Video and audio streaming support
  • HTML5 provides support for adding videos and audio to the web pages which creates more interactive websites.

History of HTML


HTML was created by  Tim Berners-Lee in the year 1991 but it was not released till 1995 as HTML 2.0


HTML versions

  • HTML 1.0 - Released in 1993 but the language was not growing back then
  • HTML 2 - Published on 24th Nov,1995
  • HTML 3 - Published on 14th Jan 1997
  • HTML 4 - Published on 18th Dec 1997
  • HTML 4.0 - HTML 4 was reissued with major edits on 24th Dec 1999
  • HTML 4.01 - HTML 4.01 was published as a W3C recommendation on 12th May 1999
  • HTML 5 - Published as W3C recommendation on 28th oct,2014


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