Fundamentals of HTML

History

• Fundamentals of HTML was developed by WHATWG(Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group, a community of people interested in evolving HTML and related technologies) in 1993.

Introduction of Fundamentals of HTML

• The website of HTML is “https://html.spec.whatwg.org/”.
• HTML stands for “Hyper Text Markup Language”.
• HTML is originated from SGML(Standard Generalized Markup Language).
• The latest version of HTML is HTML5.

Definition

• HTML is the standard markup language for webpage documents designed to be displayed on a web browser.

Features

• HTML describes the structure of a web page semantically.
• HTML elements are delineated by tags, written using angle brackets(< >). HTML has several tags.
• HTML can be assisted by other technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets(CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript(JS).
• Its extended form is XHTML(EXtensible HTML).
• The HTML file extension is .html or .htm.
• The codes of HTML can be written on a simple editor(such as Notepad/notepad++) or other specific editors (such as VS code, Adobe Dreamweaver, ).
• The output of HTML pages or codes is displayed or executed on a Web Browser (such as Google Chrome).
• An HTML comment begins with <!--, and ends with --> the symbol. for example : <!– HTML comment–>