Chapter: 8.5 HTML Topic: 8.5.1 HTML: E-Content of Internet Technology and Web Design
Chapter: 8.5 HTML Topic: 8.5.1 HTML: E-Content of Internet Technology and Web Design
HTML
• HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language, it is a language for describing
web pages.
• A markup language is a set of markup tags which describe document content.
• HTML documents contain HTML tags and plain text where documents are also
called web pages.
• HTML describes the Structure of a Page.
• HTML, by virtue of its SGML heritage, is a language for describing the structure
of a document, not its actual presentation.
• The idea here is that most documents have common elements—for example,
titles, paragraphs, and lists. Before start writing, user can identify and define the
set of elements in that document and give them appropriate names.
• The HTML page structure is depicted in the FIG