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CHAPTER                            In this technological world, we can access all the information we require on a daily basis. We can
                  LEARN HTML5 AND CSS3                                                                     6                                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?


                                 I  have a question  for                                                                                    HTML or HyperText Markup Language is the primary building block for creating a webpage.
                                 you Aadya.                                  Topics Covered                      95%                        HTML documents are made up of text content and special codes known as tags, which tells the
                                                                                 What is HTML?                                              web browser how to display the content.
                                                                                 History of HTML
                                                                                 HTML Editor
                                                                                 Features of HTML5                                          HYPERTEXT
                           What’s that?                                          Understanding HTML5 Tags
                                                                                 Basic HTML Tags                                            HyperText is the text that can be linked to another document or text. By clicking on a link in a
                                                                                Attributes                                                  hypertext document, a user can quickly jump to a different document.
                                                                                 HTML comments
                                                                                 Rules for Writing HTML Codes
                                   It is a simple question. What is              Structure of an HTML Document                              MARKUP LANGUAGE

                                   World Wide Web?                               Creating and Saving an HTML document
                                                                                   Displaying a Webpage in a Web Browser                    A Markup language is a computer language that uses specific codes for formatting the layout
                                                                                 <P> Tag                                                    and style of a text file. It is human-readable, which means that markup files use the standard
                                                                                 <BR> Tag
                                                                                 <HN> Tag                                                   English language rather than the programming syntax.
                  The World Wide Web is a                                        <HR> Tag
                  collection of linked documents                                   Styling HTML5 Documents with
                                                                                Cascading Style Sheets
                  known as webpages.                                             Use of Inline CSS with HTML5 Tags                                     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
                                 Absolutely correct! And how do we create webpages?
                                                                                                                                            Wide Web.

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


                                             These web pages are created in a special language.
                                             I think it is called HyperText Markup Language.                                                           HTML EDITOR

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

                                                                                                                                            WYSIWYG EDITOR
                                 You are correct again and today, we are going to learn about it.
                                                                                                                                            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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