HTML Tutorial 2 :What Is HTML

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is the main markup language for creating web pages and other information that can be displayed. HTML is written in the form of HTML elements consisting of tags enclosed in angle brackets like <html>.

         An example of HTML is shown below :

                           <!DOCTYPE html>

                           <html>

                           <body>

                           <h1>DIPANKAR CHOUDHURY LAB</h1>

                           <p>Blog On Computer Languages</p>

                           </body>

                           </html>

The text between <h1> and </h1> is displayed as a heading and the text between <p> and </p> is displayed as a paragraph. The extension for saving HTML code is .htm and for editing you can use notepad. The output of the above code is shown in the following snapshot->

HTML Tutorial 1 :What Is Mark Up Language

Hello Friends! Welcome to my new blog. But don't stop visiting my previous blog. I will write in both the blogs. Today here I want to start with HTML but before going to HTML everyone should know about mark up language. So in this tutorial I will give you a introduction to mark up language.

            A mark up language is a modern system for annotating(metadata attached to text, image, or other data) a document in a way that is syntactically distinguishable from the text.The idea and teminology evolved from the "marking up of paper manuscripts". In short, mark up language is a set of mark up tags.The tags describe the document content.