HTML - Language an Overview

HTML is a popular markup language associated with web page formatting in the Web Site Development fraternity, here are my efforts are to provide information about this language to those who are new to the concept of HTML. This Markup Language was originally designed as a structural language, but with time and updates, HTML has been used as a tool for presentation, making use of fonts, colors and other visual elements.

Hyper Text Markup Language - popularly known as HTML, is a widely used for formatting purpose of a webpage. HTML is written in the form of labels (known as tags). An HTML file is a text file containing small markup tags, The markup tags tell the Web browser how to display the page, this file must have an htm or html file extension, the file can be created using a simple text editor & can be executed on an Internet Browser. HTML tags are used to mark-up HTML elements and are surrounded by the two characters <> (surrounding characters are called angle brackets), HTML tags normally come in pairs like and , The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag, The text between the start and end tags is the element content, HTML tags are not case sensitive, means the same as . It provides a means to describe the structure of text-based information in a document — by denoting certain text as headings, paragraphs, lists, and so on — and to supplement that text with interactive forms, embedded images, and other objects. The World Wide Web is primarily composed of HTML documents transmitted from a web server to a web browser using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).

The peculiar thing to note is HTML is just a medium of displaying format of a document & not processing, processing however is done by scripting language such as Javascript on client side & through PHP or ASP on Server Side. To Know more about HTML Syntax's used please visit http://html-syntaxes.blogspot.com. Well mentioned above were some descriptive sentences about HTML, keep visiting the blog to know more about Web Designing stuff.