HTML Hyper Text Markup Language

What is HTML ?

HTML is a markup language for describing web document (web page).

• ·         HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. HTML adds “markup” to Stadard English text. “Hyper Text” refers to links – hyperlinks – that connect Web pages to one another.
• ·         A markup language is a set of markup tags.
• ·         HTML document are described by HTML tags.
• ·         Each HTML tag describes different document content.
• ·         HTML is not case sensitive.

History of HTML

HTML is an evolving language. it doesn't staythe same for long before a resived set of stantards and specifications are brought in to allow easier creation of prettier and ore efficient sites.

HTML 1.0

The Hyper Text Markup Language was the brainchild of Sir Tim berners-lee. in 1991 he wrote a document called "HTML Tags" in which he proposed fewer than two dozen elements that could be used for writing web pages.

HTML 2.0

HTML 2.0 included everything from the original 1.0 specifications but added a few features to the mix. HTML 2.0 was the standard for website design until January 1997 and defined many core HTML features for the first time.

HTML 3.2

HTML 4.0 was recommended by W3C in December '97 and became the official standard in April 1998. Browser support was undertaken suprisingly Expolorer browser. HTML 4.0 was a large evolution of the HTML standards, and the last iteration of classic HTML.

XHTML 1.0

This is the successor to HTML. The "X" stands for extensible. This is a reformulation of HTML 4.01 within XML (Extensuble Markup Language), which is far more rigorous, and is intended to start moving the creation if Web pages away from HTML

HTML5

HTML5 was finalized, and published, on 28 October 2014 by the Wolrd Wide Web consutium (W3C). THis is the fifth revision of the HTML standard since the inception of the World Wide Web.