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What's HTML?

It stands for Hyper Text Markup Language, it's markup language used to describe web pages.It should not be confused with programing language as it's a markup language – a markup language is a set of mark up tags and it's written using HTML Markup Tags/HTML Tags in order to make a web page.The HTML elements include tags which is covered by angle brackets.Tags are also known as its elements. These Tags help in building up a structure of a website. Basically it's used to make static web page and it allows a user to include

  • Images, objects
  • Flash contents.
  • Forms can also be created using HTML.
  • Documents can structured e.g. heading, paragraphs, lists, links, quotes.
  • Scripts can also be embedded e.g. JavaScript.
  • Allows to include CSS to design the web page.

Format of an HTML Tag

An HTML tag is surrounded with angle brackets “<tag comes here>“. A tag has a start and an end known as a start tag and end tag. The end tag has a forward slash introduced in it.

Example

Start Tag: <Tag name>
End Tag: </Tag name>

HTML Source Code View

<html>
<body>

<h1>My First HTML Code</h1>

<p>First paragraph in HTML.</p>

</body>
</html>

There are many tags in HTML that help in building up a web page. Out of all of these tags some tags are now not used that much due to reasons of browser compatibility or un- acceptance of user.

CSS(Cascading Style Sheet)

Cascading Style Sheet is used to design the layout of the web page.

Online Tutorial & Websites

As its is predominant markup language so there are millions of websites which teach and publish tutorials for HTML.One of the best, quick, easy and interactive website to learn HTML is W3C's official web site- W3C is maintainer of HTML and CSS.

It covers both basic and advance HTML versions it's up to you which type of learning you want.Of course it's not only website, there is always some thing better.so here is list of websites to learn HTML.

11 Useful Sources To Learn and Improve HTML Skills

There are many Tutorials and Books available that teach about how to write the basic HTML code.

Learn HTML in 10 seconds

Learn HTML Basics 1 of 2

Learn HTML Basic 2 of 2

Basic HTML and CSS Tutorial. How to make website from scratch

HTML Editors

Well HTML is really simple and easy to learn and of course it's editors (HTML editor is application software used to write/create web page/HTML documents.) are available, those are really simple to interact even that you can write it using window's Notepad means you can write it in any text editor.But for user convenience, to make it more easy , to provide extra functionality some advance text editors are available

  • Notepad ++
  • TED Notepad
  • TextPad
  • NetBeans IDE
  • ActiveState Komodo

WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor are also available which enables user to easily drag and drop elements and then get the code of whole page obviously what you see is what you get. Here is a list of online WYSIWYG editor.

Benefits to Learn HTML

There is always benefits/reasons to learn anything in the world and i'll tell you that why you must learn HTML if you want to in web development world.

  • It's essentional that first you have to learn HTML in order to get advance web knowledge.
  • It's one of the basic part of every web page.
  • You can read and edit the others people source code and make it your own.
  • You can create your own effects when editors don't let you to do it.

Advance HTML

After the first version which was public on November 24, 1995, It continues to update itself, as far as know HTML 5 and 6 available which includes more and advance feature.
HTML 5 is underdevelopment currently, HTML 5 is a standard to structure the web content which includes video play-back, drag & drop (which previously required plug-in).Major changes of HTML 5 from it's previous versions (HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.x) includes new elements like article, aside, audio, canvas, command, data list,output, progress etc.New attributes like ping and charset included.In HTML 5 browser will be enabled to handle syntax errors.
Documentation: The Web Developer’s Guide to HTML 5 (external link)

For FAQ's and further details about HTML 5 visit

The HTML 6 is still just in news.To check it's details Google it or for time being you can check following links
News (external link)
More News (external link)

References

HTML (external link)
HTML intro (external link)
HTML_editor (external link)
List of HTML editors (external link)
htmlbasics (external link)
HTML5 (external link)
Differences_from_HTML_4.01_and_XHTML_1.x (external link)


Created by: mudyy_rox1185 points . Last Modification: Sunday 24 of October, 2010 13:48:40 PKT by saba2655 points .

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