INTRODUCTION TO HTML


   HTML is the standard markup language to create Web pages. Collection of Webpages is called a Website. HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. HTML describes the structure of a Web page. HTML elements tell the browser how to display the content of a Webpage. 

      HTML was created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in late 1991 but was not released officially, published in 1995 as HTML 2.0. HTML 4.01 was published in late 1999 and was a major version of HTML. HTML is a very evolving markup language and has evolved with various versions updating.

     HTML5 is the latest evolution of the standard that defines HTML. The term represents two different concepts. It is a new version of the language HTML, with new elements, attributes, and behaviors, and a larger set of technologies that allows the building of more diverse and powerful Web sites and applications.

<!-- First Program : ->
<!DOCTYPE html>
    <head>
        <title>First Web Program</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <p> This is my first Webpage </p>
    </body>
</html>

        Copy this in a text editor ( NOTEPAD [basic text editor]) and save it as first.html. Open this with any Web Browsers ( like Chrome, Mozilla, IE, etc..) You will get the output