What is HTML?

rechellomataro (34)in #html • 7 years ago (edited)

Hi good day STEEMIANS! first of all I am not an Instructor I'm just an ordinary student and i'd loved to learn many things.
One thing i've learned that it is really very important for us to study with a guide so hopefully this guide DEMO can give like 0.001 % of idea with you guys about HTML.

That seems really weird right?
Come on let us start with the BASIC.
What is HTML?
HTML is the standard markup language for creating Web pages.
• HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
• HTML describes the structure of Web pages using markup
• HTML elements are the building blocks of HTML pages
• HTML elements are represented by tags
• HTML tags label pieces of content such as "heading", "paragraph", "table", and so on
• Browsers do not display the HTML tags, but use them to render the content of the page

But how it works?

Example Explained:
• The (<!DOCTYPE html) declaration defines this document to be HTML5
• The (<html) element is the root element of an HTML page
• The (<head) element contains meta information about the document
• The (<title) element specifies a title for the document
• The (<body) element contains the visible page content
• The (<h1) element defines a large heading
• The (<p) element defines a paragraph

Remember: Only the content inside the (<body) section (the white area above) is displayed in a browser.

The (<!DOCTYPE) Declaration
The (<!DOCTYPE) declaration represents the document type, and helps browsers to display web pages correctly.
It must only appear once, at the top of the page (before any HTML tags).
The (<!DOCTYPE) declaration is not case sensitive.
The (<!DOCTYPE) declaration for HTML5 is: (<!DOCTYPE html)

HTML Versions
Since the early days of the web, there have been many versions of HTML:

Version/Year:

HTML

1991
HTML 2.0

1995
HTML 3.2

1997
HTML 4.01

1999
XHTML

2000
HTML5

2014

Okay! So that's all for today. :)