About HTML

HTML i.e. Hypertext Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML is written in the form of tags, surrounded by angle brackets. HTML can also include embedded scripting language code like javascript that can affect the behaviour of web  browsers and other HTML processor. HTML was defined by Tim Berners Lee in 1990 as the method of marking up pages of information to be looked at by a browser. HTML 2.0 was the first real standard definition for HTML. HTML 3.2 added tables, applets, images, superscripts, subscipts and was compatible with HTML 2.0. It can be created  using a simple text editor. An HTML file is a text containing small markup texts. These markup tags tell the web browser how to display the page. HTML file can be created using a simple text editor. Tags are instructions that are embedded directly into the text of the document. There are various HTML tags like :

• <a>           Defines an anchor
• <b>           Bold text
• <br>          Inserts a single line break
• <caption>  Defines a table caption
• <form>      Defines a form
• <img>        Defines an image
• <input>      Defines an input field

Links are also used in HTML for e.g. :
 <a href ="http://www.w3schools.com">W3 Schools </a>
The element a stands  for "anchor". href is hypertext reference that specifies where the link leads i.e. an address on the internet or a filename. Attribute href has value  http://www.w3schools.com which is the full address of the website and is called URL. The sentence  W3 Schools is the text that is shown in the browser as link and </a> is the closing anchor tag. Various background images and colors are also given in the HTML. HTML is very useful language and its coding is used in making websites.