HTML Introduction

What is HTML?

•     HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
•     HTML is a Markup language.
•     Markup language means sets of markup tags
•     Markup tags describe document content
•     HTML documents(web pages) contain HTML tags and plain text

What are tags?

HTML markup tags are usually called HTML tags

•     HTML tags are keywords or tag names surrounded by angle brackets(<, >)
•     HTML tags normally come in pairs like and
•     The first tage is start tag and second tag is end tag
•     <p>(start tag),
  </p>(end tag) end tag use with a forward slash before the tag name

Example: <p>content</p>

HTML Versions:

Version	Year
HTML	1991
HTML+	1993
HTML 2.0	1995
HTML 3.2	1997
HTML 4.0.1	1999
XHTML 1.0	2000
HTML 5	2012
XHTML 5	2013