Introduction to HTML

To understand HTML you need to understand its abbreviation i.e. "Hypertext Markup Language".

• Hypertext = Hypertext means a text with links that is called hyperlinks.
• Markup = Sequence of characters or symbols you use to represent something.
• Language = way of communication.

HTML is the standard markup language in which we use <tags> to create web pages. HTML is used to describe the structure of website.

HTML was developed by Tim Berners Lee in era of 1990s. It used to develop electronic webpages to show on World Wide Web (WWW)

HTML documents can be created or developed on Notepad by saving them in .html extension, but Notepad is very basic editor, to make your work easy and fast you can use other Editors which helps you to create html files quickly, auto closing of tags, suggestion of tags and attributes, built in templates, drag and drop facilities and many more features, some the common and known HTML editors are following: Notepad++ Komodo Sublime Dreamweaver Netbeans Visual Studio

Basic structure of HTML is

An element hierarchically organizes the Webpage contents it forms the basic HTML structure. An HTML element consists of tags, attributes and contents.