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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 videos 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 to be displayed on web browsers?
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 tells the
web browser 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
A 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 down 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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