HTML

Hyper Text Markup Language is a text markup language used to create internet pages. It can also be described as the skeleton of a website. Because this language, the latest version of which is HTML5, cannot create dynamic functionality, it cannot be defined as a programming language.

HTML, consisting of a series of tags, gives the browser information on how the content will be displayed. 

HTML is also accepted as a formal web standard. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) not only provides regular updates for HTML, but also maintains and develops HTML features. 

Brief History of HTML

The first version of HTML was written in 1993 by Tim Berners-Lee (Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee), known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. We see that HTML has come up with many different versions over time. The most commonly used version during the 2000s was HTML 4.01, which became an official standard in December 1999. Another version was XHTML, a rewritten version of HTML as an XML language. If we were to touch on what XML is, it is Extensible Markup Language; a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting and restructuring arbitrary data.  

Today, the latest version of HTML, HTML 5, is used. Most pages on the Internet are created using the most recent version, HTML 5, or HTML 4.0.1.

How Does HTML Work? 

A HTML page consisting of a series of tags is displayed through browsers such as Google Chrome, Opera, Firefox. The browser reading HTML converts the codes into a visible form. 

HTML Tags

We can think of HTML tags like keywords that define how the browser will format and display the content. The browser reads HTML codes from top to bottom and from left to right. Each HTML tag used has different properties. Again, to understand whether what is written on the HTML page is just a simple text or an HTML tag, we pay attention to the following rules while writing HTML. 

• We include all HTML tags within these brackets <>. <strong>Example</strong>
• Each tag has a different function.
• Except for some tags (<br>, <hr>), if you used an open <tag>, you should also use a closing tag at the end </tag>.