HTML Introduction
What is HTML?
- HTML is an initialism for "HyperText Markup Language".
- It is the language of the web.
- It is used to create websites.
- It is used to define a page layout, meaning it is a barebone page structure.
- HTML is used for making pages of the website also called webpages that we see on the internet
- It consists of a set of tags.
- This set of tags is written in HTML Document.
- ".html" or ".htm" is the extension.
- There are so many versions of HTML but HTML5 is the latest version
Features of HTML
- It is platform-independent.
- Images, videos, and audio can be added to a web page.
- Hypertext can be added to the text.
- It is a markup language.
- It is interpreted language
- It can be integrated with other languages like CSS, JavaScript etc.
- Semantic Structure.
- local Storage & Indexed DB – Client-side data storage.
- Offline Capabilities (PWA) with Cache API & Service Workers.
Why the word HyperText & Markup Language
The word hypertext markup language comprises the words “hypertext” and “markup language”. The term "hypertext" refers to the linking of text with other documents and “markup language” refers to a language that uses a set of tags.
So, HTML is the linking of text with other documents using some set of tags.
Note:- Tags refers to some meaningful texts enclosed in angle braces <...>. For eg. <head>. Each tag has a different meaning and importance in building an HTML page which can affect the web page in its own ways
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