HTML Introduction

Introduction to Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

A way to present HTML information in a beautiful and attractive way in the World Wide Web. HTML was created in 1991 by Tim Berners lee.
Let's first try to understand the meaning of HTML. The full form of HTML is Hyper Text Markup Language. Each of these words has a special meaning that is explained by detail below.
HyperHyper means that the HTML does not work in the sequence. As in any programming language, the next statement execute after a statement is executed. If there is a link in an HTML file and the user clicks on it, then it opens.
It does not matter how many elements are there before and whether they are all loaded or not. All the elements of an HTML file are independent of each other. It is also not necessary that any other HTML file can not be executed before any HTML file. Like all HTML elements, all HTML files are independent from each other.
TextText is the most important in a web page. Text is the information that is used to present web page design. HTML text is used to format and present in web pages.

Markup

Markup means format of layout and style of text. You mark text by tag. The kind of tags that mark the text, the text is displayed in the web page. For example, if you mark a text by <h1> tag, then that text will appear as a large and bold heading in the webpage.

Language

HTML is a language used for web development.
So what is HTML? (A simple definition in plain hindi)
HTML is a Hyper Text Markup Language that is used to create web pages.
By using different tags of HTML you create web pages and add various elements such as images, audio, video, tables, lists, links and text to them. HTML is the first language taught and taught in the field of web designing.


Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) is also used with HTML, which is used to make webpage even better. Apart from this, using JavaScript with HTML, logic is added to web pages and they are made dynamic.
HTML VersionsSo far there have been many versions of HTML in the industry. Some new elements are added in every version of HTML. All the editions of HTML are explained in detail below.
HTML 1.0This was the first version of HTML. At that time very few people knew about this language and HTML was too limited. At that time nothing more could be done by HTML than creating web pages with simple text.
HTML 2.0This version contained all the features of HTML 1.0. Along with this version, the basic website for developing the HTML website was already done.
HTML 3.0Until the arrival of this version the HTML was very popular. This version was stopped due to a compatibility problem with browsers. But later it was introduced with new and advanced tags.
HTML 3.2In this version some new tags have been added after the previous version. This was the time when the W3C declared the HTML standard for website development. The use of HTML was no longer limited and was being used extensively.
HTML 4.01This version was introduced with some new tags as well as the cascading style sheet. At this time HTML had become completely modern language.
HTML 5.0This is the latest version of HTML. In this, some new tags have been provided for multimedia support. You can get more information about HTML 5 from the HTML5 in Hindi tutorial.
XHTMLThis version came after HTML 4.01. It was added to XML with HTML.