what's HTML?

Question

just wanted to know because im always seeing it everyewhere.

Answer 1

HTML, short for Hypertext Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for the creation of web pages. 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. HTML is written in the form of labels (known as tags), surrounded by less-than (<) and greater-than signs (>). HTML can also describe, to some degree, the appearance and semantics of a document, and can include embedded scripting language code which can affect the behavior of web browsers and other HTML processors.

HTML is also often used to refer to content of the MIME type text/html or even more broadly as a generic term for HTML whether in its XML-descended form (such as XHTML 1.0 and later) or its form descended directly from SGML (such as HTML 4.01 and earlier).

Answer 2

Hypertext Markup Language is the authoring software language used on the Internet's World Wide Web. HTML is used for creating World Wide Web pages.

Answer 3

HTML is short name of Hyper Text Markup Language.

Now you would ask for what is hyper text markup language.. so its the language which your browser (internet explorer) understands. This is common ascii code language having text formatting instructions for your browser.

For Example: to display one statement line "my first html line" in bold, we will use this link with following code "my first html line

Now your browser understands anything comes between TAG --- it will display it as bold.

Browser understand these instructions from a specific web file that has the extention *.htm or *.html

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Answer 4

HTML = hypertext markup language

To see some, right-click on any web page and select 'View Source' to see the HTML.

Answer 5

HTML(hyper text markup language) is the universal language of the web.
a simple html file could be made in Notepad, just type:





Your text goes here



Just save it as anything.html or anything.htm and open it with IE(internet explorer) Firefox or any browser.

Find more code examples at w3schools.com and codeave.com

Answer 6

Hyper Text Mark up Language

This is the language of the World Wide Web

Answer 7

HTML is the file that a website is made with just like text files equal .txt HTML is .html or .htm

Answer 8

HyperText Markup Language.
One (of many) 'languages' that the Internet talks in!
Put simply!

Answer 9

here you go;

HTML, short for Hypertext Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for the creation of web pages. 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. HTML is written in the form of labels (known as tags), surrounded by less-than (<) and greater-than signs (>). HTML can also describe, to some degree, the appearance and semantics of a document, and can include embedded scripting language code which can affect the behavior of web browsers and other HTML processors.

HTML is also often used to refer to content of the MIME type text/html or even more broadly as a generic term for HTML whether in its XML-descended form (such as XHTML 1.0 and later) or its form descended directly from SGML (such as HTML 4.01 and earlier).Basic features

* Structured text web pages, with visually nice formating of:
o chapter and section headings,
o paragraphs and text markups such as italics and bold to stress parts of text,
o unnumbered and numbered lists,
o tables;
* embedding of visible raster images into the text flow;
* links, that allows accessing other web pages on World Wide Web.

Various variants of HTML integrated with CSS, DOM access through EcmaScript (JavaScript and similar), allows for advanced dynamical web page design, read further on.

[edit] Definition of HTML

HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language.

1. Hypertext is ordinary text that has been dressed up with extra features, such as formatting, images, multimedia, and links to other resources.
2. Markup is the process of taking ordinary text and adding extra symbols. Each of the symbols used for markup in HTML is a command that tells a browser how to display the text.

[edit] History of HTML

[edit] Origins

In 1980, physicist Tim Berners-Lee, who was an independent contractor at CERN, proposed and prototyped ENQUIRE, a hypertext system for CERN researchers to use to share documents. In 1989, Berners-Lee and CERN data systems engineer Robert Cailliau each submitted separate proposals for an Internet-based hypertext system providing similar functionality. The following year, they collaborated on a joint proposal, the WorldWideWeb (W3) project, which was accepted by CERN.[1][2]

At the time, HTML was not a specification, but a collection of loosely defined elements to solve an immediate problem: the communication and dissemination of ongoing research between Berners-Lee and his colleagues. Rather than reusing existing hypertext systems which were too commercial, too platform-specific, or too complicated for authors, Berners-Lee developed his own, relatively simple system. His original browsing software, a client called "WorldWideWeb", interacting with a server called "httpd", was written in November 1990 on a NeXTcube workstation, using the NEXTSTEP development environment. It tied together his inventions of a document identification system (which later evolved into the URI standard), a protocol (HTTP) for transmitting documents over a TCP/IP network, and a document annotation convention he later referred to as Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). HTML essentially grafted hypertext capability onto a homegrown SGML-like markup language, and Berners-Lee's software allowed a computer user to view and navigate between HTML documents accessed via the Internet.[3][4] His solution later combined with the emerging international and public Internet to garner worldwide attention.

[edit] First specifications

The first publicly available description of HTML was a document called "HTML Tags", first mentioned on the Internet by Berners-Lee in late 1991.[5][6] It describes 22 elements comprising the initial, relatively simple design of HTML. Thirteen of these elements still exist in HTML 4.[7]

Berners-Lee considered HTML to be, at the time, an "application" of SGML,[8] but it was not formally defined as such until the mid-1993 publication, by the IETF, of the first proposal for an HTML specification: Berners-Lee and Dan Connolly's "Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)" Internet-Draft, which included an SGML Document Type Definition to define the grammar. The draft expired after six months, but was notable for its acknowledgment of the NCSA Mosaic browser's custom tag for embedding in-line images, reflecting the IETF's philosophy of basing standards on successful prototypes.[9] Similarly, Dave Raggett's competing Internet-Draft, "HTML+ (Hypertext Markup Format)", from late 1993, suggested standardizing already-implemented features like tables and fill-out forms.[10]

After the HTML and HTML+ drafts expired in early 1994, the IETF created an HTML Working Group, which in 1995 completed "HTML 2.0", the first HTML specification intended to be treated as a standard against which future implementations should be based.[9] Published as Request for Comments 1866, HTML 2.0 included ideas from the HTML and HTML+ drafts.[11] There was no "HTML 1.0"; the 2.0 designation was intended to distinguish the new edition from previous drafts.[12]

Further development under the auspices of the IETF was stalled by competing interests. Since 1996, the HTML specifications have been maintained, with input from commercial software vendors, by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).[3] However, in 2000, HTML also became an international standard (ISO/IEC 15445:2000). The last HTML specification published by the W3C is the HTML 4.01 Recommendation, published in late 1999. Its issues and errors were last acknowledged by errata published in 2001.

you can find much more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML
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