2-Intoduction To HTML-pagestructure-05-01-2024
2-Intoduction To HTML-pagestructure-05-01-2024
2-Intoduction To HTML-pagestructure-05-01-2024
Markup Language)
It is a language for specifying the static content of Web pages (based
on SGML, the Standard Generalized Markup Language)
Constitutes a collection of platform independent styles that define
the various components of a web document.
Styles indicated by markup tags.
Hypertext is simply a piece of text that works as a link.
Markup ->works by augmenting text with special symbols (tags)
that identify the document structure and content type
Basically an HTML document is a plain text file that contains text
and nothing else.
When a browser opens an HTML file, the browser will look for
HTML tags in the text and use them to change the layout, insert
images, or create links to other pages.
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History
The first publicly available description of HTML was a document
called "HTML Tags", first mentioned on the Internet by Berners-Lee
in late 1991.
November 24, 1995 - HTML 2.0 was published as IETF RFC 1866.
January 1997 - HTML 3.2 was published as a W3C Recommendation.
December 1997 - HTML 4.0 was published as a W3C
Recommendation.
December 1999 - HTML 4.01 was published as a W3C
Recommendation.
May 2000 - ISO HTML based on HTML 4.01 Strict was published as
an ISO/IEC international standard.
January 2008 - HTML5 was published as aWorking Draft by the W3C.
<body>
Content of the document......
</body>
</html>
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In the head section, always write a title: <title>The title of your
page</title>. Notice how the title will be shown in the upper left corner
of your browser: