Tutorial Manthra

HTML is the most widely used language on Web to develop web pages. Even though a lot of server side scripting languages are used to create web pages, all these are converted to html before sending to web browsers as web browsers will only understand languages like html, css, javascript etc.

What is HTML?

HTML is the language in which most websites are written. HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language.

Hypertext means that the document contains links that allow the reader to jump to other places in the document or to another document altogether.

A Markup Language is a way that computers speak to each other to control how text is processed and presented. To do this HTML uses two things: tags and attributes.

What can you do with HTML?

With HTML you can create your own Website.

History of HTML

HTML was created by Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, and others in late 1991 but “HTML 2.0” was the first standard HTML specification which was published in 1995. HTML 4.01 was a major version of HTML and it was published in late 1999. Though HTML 4.01 version is widely used but currently we are having HTML-5 version which is an extension to HTML 4.01, and this version was published in 2012.

Prerequisites

Before proceeding with this tutorial you should have a basic working knowledge about Computer, Operating system like Windows or Linux, and experience with any text editor like notepad, notepad++, Edit plus etc.

HTML is very easy to learn and anyone with basic computer knowledge and master HTML in a few days.

So let’s jump into the tutorial