An HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the standard language used to create and structure web pages. It forms the backbone of every website, defining content, headings, links, images, and more.
- HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language.
- It was invented by Tim Berners-Lee while at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva.
- HTML authoring software language used on the Internet’s World Wide Web. It is used for creating World Wide Web pages.
- It is a subset of Standard Generalized Mark-Up Language (SGML) for electronic publishing, the specific standard used for the World Wide Web.
- An HTML file is a text file containing small markup tags. The markup tags tell the Web browser how to display the page.
- An HMTL file must have an .htm or .html file extension.
- You can create an the file using a simple text editor.
- It enables a means to describe the structure of text-based information in a document by denoting certain text as headings, paragraphs, lists, etc, and supplementing that text with interactive forms, embedded images, and other objects.
- Developers write it using labels (known as tags) surrounded by less-than (<) and greater-than (>) signs.
- It can also describe, to some degree, the appearance and semantics of a document, and can include embedded scripting language code which can affect the behavior of web browsers and other HTML processors.
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It can define the appearance and semantics of a document and can include embedded scripting code that affects web browser behavior.
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In practical terms, HTML uses platform-independent markup tags to define the various components of a web page.
- Also, in this file format a word, a block of text, or an image can linked to another file on the Web.
- With HTML you can create your document using your browser avoiding. The switching between applications and the saving and reloading of files.