HTML stands for - Hypertext Markup Language
Hypertext
It is an ordinary text that has been dressed up with extra features such as formatting
images, multimedia and links to other documents.
Markup
It is the process of taking ordinary text and adding extra symbols. Each symbol used to
markup in HTML is a command that tells the browser how to display the text.
Advantages of HTML
1. For creating HTML documents, we need only a text editor, no special software is
required.
2. HTML document can be created on any hardware platform using text editor
3. If something is not working, then finding errors is easy in HTML.
4. HTML will not cost you anything for its use.
5. We can work independently and you need not rely on the program. We need not
worry about your editing programs.
6. Learning HTML is simpler than any programming language.
Disadvantage of HTML
1. It is not a programming language in the true sense.
2. Any simple calculation cannot be done in HTML.
3. It cannot be used to display dates.
, 4. The interactive web pages cannot be built by HTML.
5. The pages in HTML cannot behave like an application.
6. The web pages in HTML do not have their own interface.
7. Hyperlink is provided in HTML but for that it needs a trip to the server at each step.
Study of tags
Tag
A tag is a unit of marker; it is a set of symbols defined in HTML to have special meaning.
Tag starts with a less than (<) Sign followed by a keyword and with greater than sign (>).
These symbols are known as angle brackets.
There are two types of tags
a. start tag
b. end tag
Start tag begins an effect and end Tags are used to end effects. End Tag
always repeats the keyword with a forward slash in front.
E.g. Text to be displayed in bold is enclosed between <B> start tag and </B> end tag.
<B>Hello</B>.
The Essentials of a web page
Every web page consists of a few tags that define the page as a whole.
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>
Hello world example
</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
Hello world - actual documents
</BODY>
</HTML>
Hypertext
It is an ordinary text that has been dressed up with extra features such as formatting
images, multimedia and links to other documents.
Markup
It is the process of taking ordinary text and adding extra symbols. Each symbol used to
markup in HTML is a command that tells the browser how to display the text.
Advantages of HTML
1. For creating HTML documents, we need only a text editor, no special software is
required.
2. HTML document can be created on any hardware platform using text editor
3. If something is not working, then finding errors is easy in HTML.
4. HTML will not cost you anything for its use.
5. We can work independently and you need not rely on the program. We need not
worry about your editing programs.
6. Learning HTML is simpler than any programming language.
Disadvantage of HTML
1. It is not a programming language in the true sense.
2. Any simple calculation cannot be done in HTML.
3. It cannot be used to display dates.
, 4. The interactive web pages cannot be built by HTML.
5. The pages in HTML cannot behave like an application.
6. The web pages in HTML do not have their own interface.
7. Hyperlink is provided in HTML but for that it needs a trip to the server at each step.
Study of tags
Tag
A tag is a unit of marker; it is a set of symbols defined in HTML to have special meaning.
Tag starts with a less than (<) Sign followed by a keyword and with greater than sign (>).
These symbols are known as angle brackets.
There are two types of tags
a. start tag
b. end tag
Start tag begins an effect and end Tags are used to end effects. End Tag
always repeats the keyword with a forward slash in front.
E.g. Text to be displayed in bold is enclosed between <B> start tag and </B> end tag.
<B>Hello</B>.
The Essentials of a web page
Every web page consists of a few tags that define the page as a whole.
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>
Hello world example
</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
Hello world - actual documents
</BODY>
</HTML>
