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UNIT-2 HTML





                                    INTRODUCTION TO HTML                                                    2








                         While studying about Internet, it was revealed that information on the Internet is displayed through
                         web pages on different websites. You may sometimes wonder, how these websites are made or
                         how are the web pages linked with each other.

                         The web pages of a website are published and are linked together  with the help of markup
                         languages like HTML. HTML is a markup language which is used to mark the content that helps in
                         designing web pages. It stands for Hyper Text Markup Language.
                         Hypertext is the way of creating documents that can be displayed on the web and which helps
                         to establish links between themselves and cross links to other pages on the web. It refers to the
                         links among different web pages that contain different types of contents including sound, video,
                         animation, images, etc. On World Wide Web (WWW) there are a large number of hypertext links
                         that enable to explore additional or related information online.

                         Markup means identifying or marking the text by applying formatting features in web documents
                         and producing different types of effects when the document is displayed. HTML contains tags
                         that tells the browser, how the contents of a web page has to be displayed. Thus it is related with
                         ‘marking up’ of text for proper organization and appearance i.e adding extra features to ordinary
                         text. It helps to classify or distinguish between different parts of a document. In other words, it
                         helps indicate which part of a document is the title or subheading and so on.
                         Language signifies the syntax and rules for writing or marking the text.
                                 Notes

                                 HTML is a standardised system to describe the structure of text based information in a document
                                 by denoting certain text as heading, paragraphs, lists and so on and by supplementing the
                                 text with interactive forms,  embedded images  and other objects. Technically HTML is  not a
                                 programming language.

                         The structure of HTML is dedicated to formatting pages but there is not enough features in HTML
                         to provide for the processing needs of an information application.

                         HTML is a standardised system to describe the structure of text based information in a document
                         by denoting certain text as heading, paragraphs, lists and so on and by supplementing the text with
                         interactive forms, embedded images and other objects. Technically HTML is not a programming
                         language.
                           HISTORY OF HTML

                         The term  ‘Hypertext’ was coined by Ted Nelson  around 1965. It is  a collection of documents
                         containing cross-references or ‘links’ which with the help of a browser program helps a user to
                         move easily from one document to other.


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