HTML

INTRODUCTION

• HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. It is used to display the document in the web browsers.
• HTML pages can be developed to be simple text or to be complexmultimedia program containing sound, moving images and java applets.
• HTML is considered to be the global publishing format for Internet.
• It is not a programming language.
• HTML standards are created by a group of interested organizations called W3C (world wide web consortium).
• In HTML formatting is specified by using tags.
• A tag is a format name surrounded by angle brackets. End tags which switch a format off also contain a forward slash.

Points to be remembered for HTML tags:

1. Tags are delimited by angled brackets.
2. They are not case sensitive i.e., , and is equivalent.
3. If a browser not understand a tag it will usually ignore it.
4. White spaces, tabs and newlines are ignored by the browser