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About HTML: HTML Elements Angle Brackets

HTML is a markup language that uses tags to structure and present content on web pages. It consists of elements defined by tags enclosed in angle brackets. Common tags come in pairs like <h1> and </h1> for headings, while some represent empty elements like <img>. A web browser can read HTML files and display the structured content as web pages. HTML was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989-1990 and the first specification was released in 1991 to describe the initial set of 18 elements. It became the main language for building web pages and most modern websites still use HTML.

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About HTML: HTML Elements Angle Brackets

HTML is a markup language that uses tags to structure and present content on web pages. It consists of elements defined by tags enclosed in angle brackets. Common tags come in pairs like <h1> and </h1> for headings, while some represent empty elements like <img>. A web browser can read HTML files and display the structured content as web pages. HTML was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989-1990 and the first specification was released in 1991 to describe the initial set of 18 elements. It became the main language for building web pages and most modern websites still use HTML.

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ABOUT HTML

HTML

is

written

elements consisting
brackets (like <html> ).

in

the

form

of tags enclosed
HTML

tags

of HTML
in angle

most

commonly

come in pairs like <h1> and </h1> , although some tags


represent empty elements and so are unpaired, for
example <img> . The first tag in a pair is the start tag,
and the second tag is the end tag (they are also
called opening tags and closing tags).
A Web browser can read HTML files and compose them
into visible or audible Web pages. The browser does not
display the HTML tags, but uses them to interpret the
content of the page. HTML describes the structure of
a Website semantically along

with

cues

for

presentation, making it a markup language, rather than


a programming language.

HTML elements form the building blocks of all Websites.


HTML allows images and objects to be embedded and
can be used to create interactive forms. It provides a
means to create structured documents by denoting
structural semantics for

text

such

as

headings,

paragraphs, lists, links, quotes and other items. It can


embed scripts written

in

languages

such

as JavaScript which affect the behavior of HTML Web


pages.
Web

browsers

can

also

refer

to Cascading

Style

Sheets (CSS) to define the look and layout of text and


other material. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C),
maintainer of both the HTML and the CSS standards,
encourages the use of CSS over explicit presentational
HTML.[1]

Development

Tim Berners-Lee

In

1980,

physicist Tim

Berners-Lee,

who

was

contractor at CERN, proposed and prototyped ENQUIRE,


a system for CERN researchers to use and share
documents. In 1989, Berners-Lee wrote a memo
proposing
[2]

an Internet-based hypertext system.

Berners-Lee specified HTML and wrote the browser

and server software in late 1990. That year, BernersLee

and

CERN

data

systems

engineer Robert

Cailliau collaborated on a joint request for funding, but


the project was not formally adopted by CERN. In his
personal notes[3] from 1990 he listed[4] "some of the

many areas in which hypertext is used" and put an


encyclopedia first.
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 18
elements comprising the initial, relatively simple design
of HTML. Except for the hyperlink tag, these were
strongly influenced by SGMLguid, an in-house Standard
Generalized
documentation

Markup
format

Language (SGML)-based
at

CERN.

Eleven

of

these

elements still exist in HTML 4.[7]


HyperText Markup Language is a markup language that web
browsers use to interpret and compose text, images and other
material into visual or audible web pages. Default
characteristics for every item of HTML markup are defined in
the browser, and these characteristics can be altered or
enhanced by the web page designer's additional use of CSS.
Many of the text elements are found in the 1988 ISO technical
report TR 9537 Techniques for using SGML, which in turn covers
the features of early text formatting languages such as that
used by the RUNOFF command developed in the early 1960s
for the CTSS(Compatible Time-Sharing System) operating
system: these formatting commands were derived from the
commands used by typesetters to manually format documents.

However, the SGML concept of generalized markup is based on


elements (nested annotated ranges with

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