HTM-000000 | Introduction to HTML
- HTML
- (HyperText Markup Language) is the most basic building block of the Web. It describes and defines the content of a webpage. Other technologies besides HTML are generally used to define a webpage’s appearance/presentation (CSS) or functionality (JavaScript).
- Hypertext
Hypertext refers to links that connect webpages to one another, either within a single website or between websites. Links are a fundamental aspect of the Web. By uploading content to the Internet and linking it to pages created by other people, you become an active participant in the World Wide Web. - HTML markup
HTML uses “markup” to annotate text, images, and other content for display in a Web browser. HTML markup includes special “elements” such as <head>, <title>, <body>, <header>, <article>, <section>, <p>, <div>, <span>, <img>, and many others. As we will learn later in this class, the HTML written by a developer is actually instructions a browser uses to build what is known as a Document Object Model. - HTML 5
HTML 5 is the fifth and current version of the HTML standard.
It was published in October 2014 by the World Wide Web Consortium to improve the language with support for the latest multimedia, while keeping it both easily readable by humans and consistently understood by computers and devices such as web browsers, parsers, etc. HTML5 is intended to subsume not only HTML 4, but also XHTML 1 and DOM Level 2 HTML. Introduced with HTML5 was the concept of using semantic tags; common non-technical terms used to break up the markup language in a way that even non programmers could understand.
- Things to Know
- The HTML tag is used for indicating the head section of the HTML document. Tags included inside head tags are not displayed on browser window.
- The primary function of the <head> element is for processing information and metadata about an HTML document.
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