HTML

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language is the markup language used on World Wide Web to write web pages.

A document created in HTML language is called as web pages.

Hypertext means text with links. The way in which HTML web pages (often called HTML documents) are linked together is called as hypertext.

If a text is hypertext which means that the text available on page contains link to another page or document.

Markup Language which means you use HTML to simply "mark up" a text document with tags that tell a Web browser how to structure it to display.

Hypertext concept initialize in 1989 with the name of GML (Generalized Markup Language). It was developed by Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (Father of World Wide Web).

In the year of 1994 sir Tim Berners Lee founded W3C (World Wide Web Consortium). W3C is the organization which monitors world wide web standards.

HTML Versions

HTML 1.0 (1994):

It is first version of HTML from W3C with basic HTML features like backgrounds, frames, basic fonts, tables and startup form controls.

HTML 2.0 (1995):

It is next version of HTML from W3C. It has little advance features like form elements updated backgrounds, new fonts, enhanced tables,etc.

HTML 3.0 (1997):

It is next version of HTML from W3C. This version contain all updated features like advanced HTML form control, latest fonts, new HTML designs, HTML page layouts and complex mathematical equation development.

HTML 4.0 (1998-1999):

It is next version of HTML from W3C. This version contains all latest HTML features including Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) and multimedia elements.

Features of HTML:

1. HTML is used to create static web pages
2. HTML is global language
3. HTML can be understood by all browsers
4. HTML is case insensitive language (Upper & Lower both are equal)
5. HTML contains group of tags or elements
6. HTML Tags contains attributes
7. HTML is error free language. If you pass any invalid tag browser ignore that HTML tag.

Experiments