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HTML is the character-based method for describing and expressing the contents. The contents may
be a picture, text, sound and video clips.
HTML is a platform independent language i.e., HTML document can run on any type of operating
system or on any type of computer architecture like Macintosh computer, IBM computer, etc. HTML is
not case sensitive.
HTML allows to format text, graphics, sound and video and save in an ASCll (American Standard Code
of Information Interchange) code.
HTML documents can contain links (called hyperlinks), this means a user can navigate from one page
to another as needed and can access and retrieve information from other sites.
PREREQUISITES TO WORK WITH HTML
To work in HTML, the user needs:
Text Editor Web Browser
Text Editor
It provides the layout in which the text can be typed along with proper HTML syntax to create web pages.
Text editor can be character or graphical based. Some common examples of the text editor are Wordpad,
Notepad, WordPerfect, Front Page, KWrite, Netscape Composer, etc. The typed HTML text or codes are
saved with the extension .HTM or .HTML in the file name.
Web Browser
Web Browser is an application software that enables to display text, images, videos, music or other
contents which are coded in a text editor or embedded in a web page on the World Wide Web or on a
Local Area Network. Text and image on a web page can contain hyperlinks to other web pages in the
same or in different website. Browser allows a user to easily and quickly access the information that are
uploaded provided on different web pages of other websites by traversing through these links.
BASIC TERMINOLOGIES
Let us now learn about some basic terms related to HTML. These are:
Tag Element Attribute
Tags
Tags refers to the code of instructions that are used in a markup language like HTML perform an action.
It is the fundamental unit of coded document in HTML. It is surrounded by special delimiter characters
i.e., a tag is enclosed within angular brackets ‘<’ and ‘>’. If brackets are not given, then the browser
interprets the code to be a part of the normal text not tags. A tag tells the web browser, how that part of
the document is to be displayed in a web page. There are two types of tags that are used in HTML:
Container Tag
Empty Tag
<TAG NAME>
Left Angular Right Angular
Bracket Bracket
Name of the Tag
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