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In this technological world, we can access all the information we require on a daily basis. We can
                 download anything, ranging from text files, images, audio to video files from the Internet with the
                 help of web browsers. An online presence is also helpful in the growth of businesses these days.
                 We already know that web browsers enable a computer to display webpages.

                 Have you ever wondered how these webpages are created? These web pages or documents
                 are written in a special language popularly known as HTML. HTML is considered as a universal
                 language to design webpages. The contents of a webpage, its layout, images, colour, text styles,
                 etc. are all determined during the process of designing a website.




                           WHAT IS HTML?


                 HTML or HyperText Markup Language is the primary building block for creating a webpage.
                 HTML documents are made up of text content and special codes known as tags, which tell web
                 browsers how to display the content.


                 HYPERTEXT

                 HyperText is the text that can be linked to another document or text. By clicking on a link in a
                 hypertext document, a user can quickly jump to a different document.


                 MARKUP LANGUAGE
                 Markup language is a computer language that uses specific codes for formatting the layout and
                 style of a text file. It is human-readable, which means that markup files use the standard English

                 language rather than the programming syntax.



                           HISTORY OF HTML


                 HTML was invented in 1990 by Tim Berners Lee, a scientist at CERN, Switzerland, at the European
                 Laboratory for Particle Physics. The purpose was to make it easier for scientists from different
                 universities to gain access to each other’s research. Tim laid the foundation of the World Wide
                 Web.

                 The latest version of HTML is HTML5 which was released in 2008.




                           HTML EDITOR

                 Mainly two types of HTML editors are used. These editors are WYSIWYG and Text editors.

                 WYSIWYG EDITOR

                 WYSIWYG stands for What You See Is What You Get. This editor allows the developer to see what
                 the end result will look like when the document is created.



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