Full-Form of HTML
HTML stands for HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE. In which,
HYPERTEXT is just a piece of Text that works as link.
MARKUP LANGUAGE is a one type of language of writing layout information within documents.
HTML is used to create web pages. Which shows that how to display information on web pages, i.e. some of the WebPages we can see on the internet are written using HTML code.
Basically HTML documents are plain text files. It contains rich text which describes the text with tags. Any HTML program can be written in simple text editors like Notepad or WordPad. The extension for HTML program will be either html or htm.
The HTML program can be opened in some web browsers like,
- Mozilla Firefox
- Google Chrome
- Opera
- Internet Explorer
- Safari etc.
History
At First, The HTML is developed by Tim Berners-Lee and wrote the browser and server software in late 1990 and it was released in 1993.
The first publicly available description of HTML document was called as “HTML Tags”
The latest version of HTML is HTML5 which has some new extensive features like,
Stream videos, Section element, the figure element for display visual content such as photos, diagrams, vectors & illustrations etc.
Advantages of HTML
- HTML is FREE of Cost to Use
- Simple & easy to learn
- Supported by almost all browsers
- Integrate easily with other languages
- Changes can be done instantly
- User friendly
- Easy to edit
Sample HTML Program
<!DOCTYPE>
<html>
<head>
<title> My New Page </title>
</head>
<body>
This is my new webpage!!
</body>
</html>