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HTML is a computer language that allows you to display any information, images, or videos over the Internet. HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. HTML is the code that is used to structure a web page and its content. HTML describes the structure of a Web page. HTML consists of a series of elements. HTML elements tell the browser how to display the content. For example, content could be structured within a set of paragraphs, a list of bulleted points, or using images and data tables.
Basic Structure of HTML Document
<!DOCTYPE HTML> <html lang="en-US"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title> This is the Site Title </title> </head> <body> This is HTML! </body> </html>
And to do this you need to create a web page. And the main structure of a web page is created with HTML. HTML is not a programming language, it is called Hyper Text Mark Up Language. Mark Up Language consists of a set of Mark Up tags. How different parts of a web page will be displayed by the browser is expressed using Mark Up tags in HTML.
What are HTML features?
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HTML can only create static web pages. For dynamic web pages, other languages have to be used.
Features of HTML:
It is easy to learn and easy to use.
It is platform-independent.
Images, videos, and audio can be added to a web page.
Hypertext can be added to the text.
It is a markup language.
Uses of HTML
It is used for basic layout creating or designing the Web page.
Without HTML, the World Wide Web will not exist.
It allows embedding text, image, multimedia (audio / video) and links to other documents and the Web pages.
It provides a means to create structured document by using paragraph, character formatting, links and lists.
It can embed scripts such as CSS, JavaScript, which affect the behavior and design of the Web page.
Advantages of using HTML
It is highly flexible and user-friendly.
It is an open technology that supports almost all the Web browser and platforms like MS-Windows, Macintosh, UNIS, etc.
It is efficient and reliable. You can create the Web page in order to advertise and promote products and services.
It is easily understandable and does not require long time training.
It provides search engine compatible to the Web sites.
Disadvantages of using HTML
It is complex to design an attractive Web page only using HTML. So, other languages are used for additional programming.
It is difficult to develop a complete Web Site by using only HTML. Web development tools like Dreamweaver, Foundation are used.
It cannot be used to develop a dynamic Web page.
There is no any complete acceptable standard of HTML.
There are many incompatibilities of HTML.
Types of Tags in HTML
HTML tags can be of two types:
Paired Tags
Singular Tags
1. Paired Tags
It is also called container tag. A tag is said to a paired tag if it along with a companion tag or closing tag appears at the end. For example, the tag is paired tag. The tag with its closing tag is used to rendered in Bold Text. In paired tag, first tag is called the opening tag and the second tag is called the closing tag.
2. Singular Tags
The second type of tag is the singular tag, which is also known as a stand-alone tag or empty tag. The stand-alone tag does not have companion tag or closing tag.
For example : Other singular tags are:
Tags Description
<BR> Insert a link break
<HR> Defines a horizontal rule
<!–> Defines a comment
Meta Tag
The Meta tag is one of the head elements. Meta tag is used to make the Website or its content searchable on the WWW or internet. This tag offers information about page or description about page or author of page or keyword that is relevant to that page. Actually, it is used for search engine information. The search engine interacts with the Meta tag of the HTML page at first.