Introduction to HTML
- HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language.
- HTML is the standard markup language (presentation language) used to create web pages.
- Markup language contains set of web pages using markup tags. (note: Browser do not display the HTML tags, but use them to present the content of the pages.)
- Browser generates corresponding output based on the tags.
Evolution of Markup Language.
1) GML - Generalized Markup Language.
- GML is design by IBM to prepare their internal documents.
2) SGML- Standard Generalized Markup Language.
- GML rules are modified as a tags in SGML;
- First time markup tags are used in SGML.
3) HTML and XML
- HTML and xml inherits the rules from SGML.
- HTML is used for data presentation .
- XML is used for data representation (data storage).
Version History Of HTML
- HTML 1.0- 1991
- HTML 2.0-1994
- HTML 3.0- 1997
- HTML 4.0 - 1998
- HTML 5.0 - 2008-2004
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