HTML Introduction & History of HTML Languages
What is
HTML?
- HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
- HTML is the standard markup language for
creating Web pages
- HTML describes the structure of a Web page
- HTML consists of a series of elements
- HTML elements tell the browser how to
display the content
- HTML elements label pieces of content such
as "this is a heading", "this is a paragraph",
"this is a link", etc.
Example
Explained
- The
<!DOCTYPE html>declaration defines that this document is an HTML5 document - The
<html>element is the root element of an HTML page - The
<head>element contains meta information about the HTML page - The
<title>element specifies a title for the HTML page (which is shown in the browser's title bar or in the page's tab) - The
<body>element defines the document's body, and is a container for all the visible contents, such as headings, paragraphs, images, hyperlinks, tables, lists, etc. - The
<h1>element defines a large heading - The
<p>element defines a paragraph
HTML
History
Since the early days of the World Wide Web,
there have been many versions of HTML:
|
Year |
Version |
|
1989 |
Tim
Berners-Lee invented www |
|
1991 |
Tim
Berners-Lee invented HTML |
|
1993 |
Dave Raggett
drafted HTML+ |
|
1995 |
HTML Working
Group defined HTML 2.0 |
|
1997 |
W3C
Recommendation: HTML 3.2 |
|
1999 |
W3C
Recommendation: HTML 4.01 |
|
2000 |
W3C
Recommendation: XHTML 1.0 |
|
2008 |
WHATWG HTML5
First Public Draft |
|
2012 |
|
|
2014 |
|
|
2016 |
W3C Candidate
Recommendation: HTML 5.1 |
|
2017 |
|
|
2017 |
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