What is HTML?
HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. A markup language is a set of markup tags. A HTML markup tags is a keyword enclosed in angle brackets. HTML uses markup tags to describe web pages.
The HTML tags are also called as elements. HTML tags are elements normally comes in pairs like <b> and </b>. The first tag in the pair is the start tag and the second tag is end tag. Some HTML tags have empty content. Empty tags are closed in the start tag <br/>. Most HTML tags can be nested i.e. they can contain other HTML tags.
Eg: <p><b>This is nested tag</b></p>
Many HTML tag have attributes, Attributes provides additional information about the element. Attributes are always specified in the start tag. Attributes comes in name and value pairs like name=”Value”.
Eg: <body bgcolor=”green”>
HTML is not case sensitive that means <p> and <P> will be rendered the same by the web browser. It is better to use lowercase tags because W3C recommends lowercase in HTML 4, and demands lowercase tags in future version of (X) HTML.
To create a web page a plain text editor (like Notepad) can be used. For a beginner this is the best way to learn HTML. However, Professional web developers often prefer HTML editors like FrontPage or Dreamweaver, instead of writing plain text. While saving an HTML file, either the .htm or the .html extension can be used. To view the web page any web browser like the Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox can be used.
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