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HTML Tutorial

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HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language, which is the most widely used language on
Web to develop web pages. HTML was created by Berners-Lee in late 1991 but "HTML 2.0" was
the first standard HTML specification which was published in 1995. HTML 4.01 was a major
version of HTML and it was published in late 1999. Though HTML 4.01 version is widely used
but currently we are having HTML-5 version which is an extension to HTML 4.01, and this
version was published in 2012.

Why to Learn HTML?


Originally, HTML was developed with the intent of defining the structure of documents like
headings, paragraphs, lists, and so forth to facilitate the sharing of scientific information between
researchers. Now, HTML is being widely used to format web pages with the help of different tags
available in HTML language.

HTML is a MUST for students and working professionals to become a great Software Engineer
specially when they are working in Web Development Domain. I will list down some of the key
advantages of learning HTML:

Create Web site - You can create a website or customize an existing web template if
you know HTML well.

Become a web designer - If you want to start a carrer as a professional web designer,
HTML and CSS designing is a must skill.

Understand web - If you want to optimize your website, to boost its speed and
performance, it is good to know HTML to yield best results.

Learn other languages - Once you understands the basic of HTML then other related
technologies like javascript, php, or angular are become easier to understand.

Hello World using HTML.


Just to give you a little excitement about HTML, I'm going to give you a small conventional
HTML Hello World program, You can try it using Demo link.

Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>This is document title</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is a heading</h1>
<p>Hello World!</p>
</body>
</html>

Applications of HTML
As mentioned before, HTML is one of the most widely used language over the web. I'm going to
list few of them here:

Web pages development - HTML is used to create pages which are rendered over the
web. Almost every page of web is having html tags in it to render its details in browser.

Internet Navigation - HTML provides tags which are used to navigate from one page to
another and is heavily used in internet navigation.

Responsive UI - HTML pages now-a-days works well on all platform, mobile, tabs,
desktop or laptops owing to responsive design strategy.

Offline support HTML pages once loaded can be made available offline on the
machine without any need of internet.

Game development- HTML5 has native support for rich experience and is now useful
in gaming developent arena as well.

Audience
This HTML tutorial is designed for the aspiring Web Designers and Developers with a need to
understand the HTML in enough detail along with its simple overview, and practical examples.
This tutorial will give you enough ingredients to start with HTML from where you can take
yourself at higher level of expertise.

Prerequisites
Before proceeding with this tutorial you should have a basic working knowledge with Windows
or Linux operating system, additionally you must be familiar with −

Experience with any text editor like notepad, notepad++, or Edit plus etc.
How to create directories and files on your computer.
How to navigate through different directories.
How to type content in a file and save them on a computer.
Understanding about images in different formats like JPEG, PNG format.
HTML - Overview

HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language, and it is the most widely used language to write
Web Pages.

Hypertext refers to the way in which Web pages (HTML documents) are linked
together. Thus, the link available on a webpage is called Hypertext.

As its name suggests, HTML is a Markup Language which means you use HTML to
simply "mark-up" a text document with tags that tell a Web browser how to structure it to
display.

Originally, HTML was developed with the intent of defining the structure of documents like
headings, paragraphs, lists, and so forth to facilitate the sharing of scientific information between
researchers.

Now, HTML is being widely used to format web pages with the help of different tags available in
HTML language.

Basic HTML Document


In its simplest form, following is an example of an HTML document −

Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
<title>This is document title</title>
</head>

<body>
<h1>This is a heading</h1>
<p>Document content goes here.....</p>
</body>

</html>
This is a heading
Document content goes here.....

HTML Tags
As told earlier, HTML is a markup language and makes use of various tags to format the
content. These tags are enclosed within angle braces <Tag Name>. Except few tags, most of
the tags have their corresponding closing tags. For example, <html> has its closing tag </html>
and <body> tag has its closing tag </body> tag etc.

Above example of HTML document uses the following tags −


Sr.No Tag & Description

1 <!DOCTYPE...>
This tag defines the document type and HTML version.

2 <html>
This tag encloses the complete HTML document and mainly comprises of document
header which is represented by <head>...</head> and document body which is
represented by <body>...</body> tags.

3 <head>
This tag represents the document's header which can keep other HTML tags like
<title>, <link> etc.

4 <title>
The <title> tag is used inside the <head> tag to mention the document title.

5 <body>
This tag represents the document's body which keeps other HTML tags like <h1>,
<div>, <p> etc.

6 <h1>
This tag represents the heading.

7 <p>
This tag represents a paragraph.

To learn HTML, you will need to study various tags and understand how they behave, while
formatting a textual document. Learning HTML is simple as users have to learn the usage of
different tags in order to format the text or images to make a beautiful webpage.

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommends to use lowercase tags starting from HTML 4.

HTML Document Structure


A typical HTML document will have the following structure −

<html>
<head>
Document header related tags
</head>

<body>
Document body related tags
</body>

</html>

We will study all the header and body tags in subsequent chapters, but for now let's see what is
document declaration tag.

The <!DOCTYPE> Declaration


The <!DOCTYPE> declaration tag is used by the web browser to understand the version of the
HTML used in the document. Current version of HTML is 5 and it makes use of the following
declaration −

<!DOCTYPE html>

There are many other declaration types which can be used in HTML document depending on
what version of HTML is being used. We will see more details on this while discussing
<!DOCTYPE...> tag along with other HTML tags.
HTML - Basic Tags

Heading Tags
Any document starts with a heading. You can use different sizes for your headings. HTML also
has six levels of headings, which use the elements <h1>, <h2>, <h3>, <h4>, <h5>, and <h6>.
While displaying any heading, browser adds one line before and one line after that heading.

Example

Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
<title>Heading Example</title>
</head>

<body>
<h1>This is heading 1</h1>
<h2>This is heading 2</h2>
<h3>This is heading 3</h3>
<h4>This is heading 4</h4>
<h5>This is heading 5</h5>
<h6>This is heading 6</h6>
</body>

</html>

This will produce the following result −


This is heading 1
This is heading 2
This is heading 3

This is heading 4

This is heading 5

This is heading 6

Paragraph Tag
The <p> tag offers a way to structure your text into different paragraphs. Each paragraph of text
should go in between an opening <p> and a closing </p> tag as shown below in the example −

Example

Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
<title>Paragraph Example</title>
</head>

<body>
<p>Here is a first paragraph of text.</p>
<p>Here is a second paragraph of text.</p>
<p>Here is a third paragraph of text.</p>
</body>

</html>

This will produce the following result −


Here is a first paragraph of text.

Here is a second paragraph of text.

Here is a third paragraph of text.

Line Break Tag


Whenever you use the <br /> element, anything following it starts from the next line. This tag is
an example of an empty element, where you do not need opening and closing tags, as there is
nothing to go in between them.

The <br /> tag has a space between the characters br and the forward slash. If you omit this
space, older browsers will have trouble rendering the line break, while if you miss the forward
slash character and just use <br> it is not valid in XHTML.

Example

Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
<title>Line Break Example</title>
</head>

<body>
<p>Hello<br />
You delivered your assignment ontime.<br />
Thanks<br />
Mahnaz</p>
</body>

</html>

This will produce the following result −

Hello
You delivered your assignment on time.
Thanks
Mahnaz
Centering Content
You can use <center> tag to put any content in the center of the page or any table cell.

Example

Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
<title>Centring Content Example</title>
</head>

<body>
<p>This text is not in the center.</p>

<center>
<p>This text is in the center.</p>
</center>
</body>

</html>

This will produce following result −

This text is not in the center.

This text is in the center.

Horizontal Lines
Horizontal lines are used to visually break-up sections of a document. The <hr> tag creates a
line from the current position in the document to the right margin and breaks the line accordingly.

For example, you may want to give a line between two paragraphs as in the given example
below −

Example

Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
<title>Horizontal Line Example</title>
</head>

<body>
<p>This is paragraph one and should be on top</p>
<hr />
<p>This is paragraph two and should be at bottom</p>
</body>

</html>

This will produce the following result −

This is paragraph one and should be on top

This is paragraph two and should be at bottom

Again <hr /> tag is an example of the empty element, where you do not need opening and
closing tags, as there is nothing to go in between them.

The <hr /> element has a space between the characters hr and the forward slash. If you omit
this space, older browsers will have trouble rendering the horizontal line, while if you miss the
forward slash character and just use <hr> it is not valid in XHTML

Preserve Formatting
Sometimes, you want your text to follow the exact format of how it is written in the HTML
document. In these cases, you can use the preformatted tag <pre>.

Any text between the opening <pre> tag and the closing </pre> tag will preserve the formatting
of the source document.

Example

Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
<title>Preserve Formatting Example</title>
</head>

<body>
<pre>
function testFunction( strText ){
alert (strText)
}
</pre>
</body>

</html>

This will produce the following result −

function testFunction( strText ){


alert (strText)
}

Try using the same code without keeping it inside <pre>...</pre> tags

Nonbreaking Spaces
Suppose you want to use the phrase "12 Angry Men." Here, you would not want a browser to
split the "12, Angry" and "Men" across two lines −

An example of this technique appears in the movie "12 Angry Men."

In cases, where you do not want the client browser to break text, you should use a nonbreaking
space entity &nbsp; instead of a normal space. For example, when coding the "12 Angry Men"
in a paragraph, you should use something similar to the following code −

Example

Live Demo
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
<title>Nonbreaking Spaces Example</title>
</head>

<body>
<p>An example of this technique appears in the movie "12&nbsp;Angry&nbsp;Men
</body>

</html>

This will produce the following result −

An example of this technique appears in the movie "12 Angry Men."

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