What is HTML

HTML is an acronym that stands for HyperText Markup Language.  It is a markup language heavily utilized for creating web pages and web applications. HTML, when combined with JavaScript and CSS, has become a milestone for web development. The basic building blocks of any HTML pages are HTML elements.

Hyper Text: HyperText simply means “Text within Text.” A text has a link within it, is a hypertext. Whenever you click on a link which brings you to a new webpage, you have clicked on a hypertext. HyperText is a way to link two or more web pages with each other.

Markup Language: Markup languages are different from programming languages. Whereas programming languages help us modify data, we use markup languages to determine how elements are displayed on a webpage.

Web Page: A web page is a document which is commonly written in HTML and translated by a web browser. A web page can be identified by entering an URL. A Web page can be of the static or dynamic type. With the help of HTML only, we can create static web pages.

Hence, HTML is a markup language which is used for creating attractive web pages with the help of styling, and which looks in a nice format on a web browser. An HTML document is made of many HTML tags and each HTML tag contains different content.

HTML uses “markup” to annotate text, images, and other content for display in a Web browser.

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How does HTML work?

HTML is usually stored in files that use the .htm or .html extension. When you visit a web page, server sends its HTML files to your browser. Your browser then reads the HTML in the files and displays it. HTML works by using a series of tags.  There are over 100 HTML tags currently available to use. There are three HTML tags that are necessary for each page. These are <html>, <head>, and <body>. With tags and elements, we can define the headings, paragraphs, and other contents of a web page.

What is HTML5?

HTML5 is the most recent version of HTML. HTML5 offers more functionality than previous iterations of the language. For example:

  • video: The video tag allows developers to embed and stream video from a browser without needing a plugin like Flash or Silverlight
  • audio: The audio tag is similar to the video tag in that you can use it to embed and stream sound files from a web browser.
  • canvas: The canvas tag defines a section in the HTML used to draw graphics using JavaScript. It can even handle 3D graphics and animation.
  • nav: HTML5 also added new tags to define specific web page sections, like the nav tag, which defines navigation elements.

Navigating the internet

Navigating the internet would be much harder without HTML.

What career use HTML?

Every aspiring web developer needs to know HTML. Front-end engineers use HTML (along with CSS and JavaScript) to design the structure and layout of web pages and applications.

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