What is HTML?

Answer 1

Hyper Text Markup Language

It is not really a programming language as it can not calculate or process any form of logic. Instead it is used to "style" or layout text and images (or media such as Flash or Vidoe) on a website.

Your web browser, eg. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, will actually download a file from a web server when you enter a url (http://www.sites-url.com). The file it downloads (usually "index.html", "default.html", or "start.html") will be interpreted by your browser. This file is very similar to a plain text file. Actually web pages can be created in programs such as Notepad and just save with the extension .html. Basically your browser will read the html "tags" and lay out the page as it feels the developer of the page wanted it to be viewed. The only reason I use "feels" in the above sentance is because despite W3C persistance, some comapanies who produce web browsers (*cough cough - Microsoft Internet Explore) program them to lay the page out according to their interpretation.

For more information on the "standards" of html, visit http://www.w3c.org .

Answer 2

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. Basically it's what web developers use to create web pages. Once a web developer creates a web page and puts it on the internet, your internet browser interprets the HTML and generates the web page. If you would like to the view the html of a web page you can right click in an open area of the page and click view source. There are also a lot of good books for starting out with HTML. Try this one http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=10202

Answer 3

HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. As implied by the title, it's a markup language, which means it's static, or it doesn't change aside from what you write. It is used to create web content, such as pages and sites. If you want to see pretty complex HTML, just right-click on this page and click "View Source". It's pretty advanced.

If you want a tutorial on HTML, there are a few good ones out there on Google. However, there's also one on http://tutorials.jogrammah.com/learnhtml/

That's a beta tutorial, not yet open to the general public, so it's not that great.

Answer 4

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
It's the language that Web Browsers read to layout web-pages for you to look at.

It's basically text with Tags that tell it how to format images and display pictures and whatever.

for example is the tag for bold. you cancle the tag with

i am crazy.

that would make "crazy" bold and stand out. if you want words to link to another page, you could use the "a" tag like this:

to see my bunny click here. it's cute.

an HTML file is a file that contains codes like that. if you open an HTML file with a web-browser you will not see those codes, but you will see the effects of those codes, some browsers allow you to view the "source code" which would show you those codes, otherwise you would open the file with a text editor like notepad for windows.

Answer 5

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language, and it is a programming language used to design web pages

Answer 6

Originally, Web pages were, for the most part, static files -- that is, once you loaded them, they pretty much stayed the same. This is inherent in hypertext markup language (HTML), the basic programming language of Web pages. HTML basically consists of simple tags that tell a Web browser where to display Web page elements.

As the Internet continued to evolve, Web designers found this static quality fairly limiting. They wanted to add dynamic content to their Web sites -- that is, content that could change once the user had already downloaded a particular Web page. Dynamic HTML, or dHTML, is the term for the software technology that makes this possible. DHTML content is actually produced by using a number of complex scripting languages, such as Javascript, to access something called the document object model on your Internet browser. Basically, the document object model (DOM) controls everything about how a browser displays a Web page. These days, almost all users have browsers that will expose the DOM to scripting languages, so that this script can alter HTML elements (to change the text color as you move the mouse over a word, for example).

DHTML was not created with animation in mind, but it will let you alter HTML elements in a way that will add movement to a Web page. A dHTML script can simply tell the browser to keep changing the placement of a particular image on the page, so it travels around the screen. If you do this with several different images, you can move a series of graphic elements around each other to make interesting movies.

Like GIF animation, dHTML animation is automatically recognized by most Web browsers, without the user having to download any extra components. However, it is fairly tricky to create dHTML content that works the same way on all browsers, so this sort of animation is not nearly as simple as GIF animation. Actually coding the animation program yourself is quite difficult, but there are user friendly software applications, such as Macromedia's Dreamweaver, that will produce the correct script code for you.

DHTML is fairly limited in its animation applications, because all it can really do is move still images around on the screen. It's much more fluid than GIF animation, but for many applications, it is a much less effective way of displaying a changing image. DHTML is pretty much the limit of a Web browser's built-in animation ability. To add more complex animation abilities to the Internet, innovators had to come up with programs that supplemented the users' browsers.

Answer 7

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language and is a basic language to create webpage.

so if anyone thinks of becoming a web developer, he must think of learning HTML.
There are good sites where you can start learning it. One I like is http://www.tizag.com... good site to start learning. Hope it helps.


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Answer 8

Hypertext Markup Language. Click on the View -> Source menu option in the top menu bar to view an example.