HTML Introduction

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.

HTML History

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	HTML 3.2
1999	HTML 4.01
2000	XHTML 1.0
2008	HTML5 First Public Draft
2012	HTML5 Living Standard
2014	HTML5
2016	HTML 5.1
2017	HTML5.1 2nd Edition
2017	HTML5.2

Web Browsers

The purpose of a web browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari) is to read HTML documents and display them correctly. A browser does not display the HTML tags but uses them to determine how to display the document.

Example


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
   <head>
       <title>Page Title</title>
   </head>
   <body>
      <h1>MSK Institute</h1>
      <p>MSK Institute is the best</p>
   </body>
</html>

Explained

<!DOCTYPE html> declaration defines that this document is an HTML5 document
<html> element is the root element of an HTML page
<head> element contains meta information about the HTML page
<title> element specifies a title for the HTML page (shown in the browser's title bar or in the page's tab)
<body> element defines the document's body and is a container for all visible content like headings, paragraphs, etc.
<h1> element defines a large heading
<p> element defines a paragraph