What is HTML and how to learn and its benefits

HTML is a language, which is used for web development. The full form of HTML is "Hyper Text Markup Language", which is used to create web pages. Using various HTML tags, you create web pages and add various elements such as images, audio, lists, links and text etc. to them.

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It is a Markup Language, which is called " Hyper Text Markup Language ". HTML is most commonly used in creating web pages. Using HTML Language, we explain to Web Browser that – how the information of our Web Page should look to the users.

It is used to create web documents. However, it is not limited to just creating Web Documents. Because HTML is the basis of the web, the creation of the web cannot be imagined without it.

What is HTML - What Is HTML

HTML is a medium to present any information in the World Wide Web in a beautiful and attractive way. HTML was created by Tim Berners Lee in 1991.

HTML is managed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as a standard. W3C is an international community that works to create and manage web standards.

HTML is the first language learned and taught in the field of Web Designing. This language is very simple as compared to other computer languages like C, C++, Java etc.

CSS is also used along with HTML, which is used to design the web page even better. Using Javascript with HTML, logic is added to web pages and they are made dynamic.

When a technology or language is selected as a standard, all platforms, developers and organizations follow it unconditionally. It does not matter which operating system or editor you are using. HTML is always used to create web pages.

Web pages created in HTML can be viewed on all platforms. For this you do not need any special platform or software. HTML is platform independent. Let us now try to understand the meaning of HTML.

The full form of HTML is " Hyper Text Markup Language ". Each of these words has a special meaning, which is being explained in detail below.

HYPER

HYPER means that HTML does not work in sequence. As in any programming language, after one statement the next statement is executed. If there is a link in an HTML file and the user clicks on it, it gets executed.

It doesn't matter how many elements are there before that and whether all of them are loaded or not. It is also not necessary that no other HTML file can be executed before any one HTML file. Like HTML Elements, all HTML files are also independent from each other.

TEXT

Text is most important in any webpage. Text is the information that the web page is designed to present. It is used to format HTML text and present it in web pages.

MARKUP

Markup means formatting the layout and style of the text. You mark the text by tags , the type of tags that mark the text, in the same way the text is shown in the web page. For example, if you mark a text with <H1> tag, then that text will appear as big and bold heading in the web page.

HTML uses "HTML Tags" to create a web document. Each HTML tag defines the text that comes between it in some way. This is called Markup. “<i>” is an HTML tag, which italicizes the text coming between it. This whole process is called Markup and all the Web Documents present on the web are formatted in the same way.

LANGUAGE

HTML is a language, which is used for web development. It uses code-words to create a Web Document, which are called tags and there is also a Syntax of HTML to write these tags. It has three main parts. Which are Element, Tags and Text respectively.

How to learn HTML?

HTML is very easy to learn, if you try, you can learn HTML very well in a few days. To learn HTML, you need two things. The first is Text Editor (Text Editor) and the second is Web Browser (Web Browser).

Text Editor You can use any text editor like Notepad or Notepad++. And Web Browser You can learn HTML using any web browser like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer.

You do not need to download any separate software to learn HTML. Because if you use Windows Operating System, then Google Chrome or Internet Explorer (Web Browser) and Notepad (Text Editor) are already present on your computer, which you can use to create a website.

Some Important HTML Tags

Tag	Description
<!–…–>	Defines a comment
<!DOCTYPE>	Defines the document type
<a>	Defines a hyperlink
<abbr>	Defines an abbreviation or an acronym
<address>	Defines contact information for the author/owner of a document
<area>	Defines an area inside an image map
<article>	Defines an article
<audio>	Defines embedded sound content
<b>	Defines bold text
<base>	Specifies the base URL/target for all relative URLs in a document
<blockquote>	Defines a section that is quoted from another source
<body>	Defines the document’s body
<br>	Defines a single line break
<button>	Defines a clickable button
<canvas>	Used to draw graphics, on the fly, via scripting (usually JavaScript)
<caption>	Defines a table caption
<center>	Defines centered text
<code>	Defines a piece of computer code
<dialog>	Defines a dialog box or window
<div>	Defines a section in a document
<dt>	Defines a term/name in a description list
<em>	Defines emphasized text
<font>	Defines font, color, and size for text
<form>	Defines an HTML form for user input
<h1> to <h6>	Defines HTML headings
<head>	Contains metadata/information for the document
<header>	Defines a header for a document or section
<html>	Defines the root of an HTML document
<i>	Defines a part of text in an alternate voice or mood
<img>	Defines an image
<li>	Defines a list item
<link>	Defines the relationship between a document and an external resource (most used to link to style sheets)
<map>	Defines an image map
<mark>	Defines marked/highlighted text
<nav>	Defines navigation links
<p>	Defines a paragraph
<picture>	Defines a container for multiple image resources
<progress>	Represents the progress of a task
<q>	Defines a short quotation
<select>	Defines a drop-down list
<small>	Defines smaller text
<source>	Defines multiple media resources for media elements (<video> and <audio>)
<span>	Defines a section in a document
<strike>	Use <del> or <s> instead. Defines strikethrough text
<strong>	Defines important text
<style>	Defines style information for a document
<sub>	Defines subscripted text
<summary>	Defines a visible heading for a <details> element
<sup>	Defines superscripted text
<table>	Defines a table
<tbody>	Groups the body content in a table
<td>	Defines a cell in a table
<tfoot>	Groups the footer content in a table
<th>	Defines a header cell in a table
<thead>	Groups the header content in a table
<time>	Defines a specific time (or datetime)
<title>	Defines a title for the document
<tr>	Defines a row in a table
<track>	Defines text tracks for media elements (<video> and <audio>)
<var>	Defines a variable
<video>	Defines embedded video content

HTML Versions

Till now many versions of HTML have come in the industry. Some new elements are added in every version of HTML. All the versions of HTML are being explained in detail below. All these versions reflect the history of HTML and the improvements made over time.

HTML 1.0

This was the first version of HTML. At that time very few people knew about this language and HTML was also very limited. At that time nothing much could be done except creating webpages with simple text through HTML.

HTML 2.0

This version had all the features of HTML 1.0. With this version, HTML had become the basic medium for website development.

HTML 3.0

By the time this version came, HTML had become very popular. This version was stopped due to compatibility problem with browsers in this version. But later it was introduced with new and advanced tags.

HTML 3.2

In this version some new tags were added after the previous version. This was the time when W3C declared HTML as the standard language for website development. The use of HTML was no longer limited and it was being used widely.

HTML 4.01

In this version, cascading style sheet was also introduced along with some new tags. At this time HTML had become a completely modern language.

HTML 5.0

This is the latest version of HTML. In this, some new tags have been provided for multimedia support.

XHTML

This version came after HTML 4.01. XML was added to it along with HTML. Every work in HTML is done by tags. That's why it is very important to know about your tags to understand and use HTML properly.

Some examples of HTML

<form>
  <label for="fname">First name:</label><br>
  <input type="text" id="fname" name="fname"><br>
  <label for="lname">Last name:</label><br>
  <input type="text" id="lname" name="lname">
</form>

<form>
  <input type="checkbox" id="vehicle1" name="vehicle1" value="Bike">
  <label for="vehicle1"> I have a bike</label><br>
  <input type="checkbox" id="vehicle2" name="vehicle2" value="Car">
  <label for="vehicle2"> I have a car</label><br>
  <input type="checkbox" id="vehicle3" name="vehicle3" value="Boat">
  <label for="vehicle3"> I have a boat</label>
</form>

In the end

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