HTML Tutorial for beginners - Learn HTML Online

byJennifer Winget •
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HTML is a very simple and popular language and every programer or coder will aware of this
language. You may be surprised after knowing that about 1.3 billion websites online today
are using HTML language in one way or the other. Don’t be confused between HTTP and
HTML, I think many of use will know the difference but those who are beginners will be
confused in these different terms. 


What is HTML?

HTML stands for hypertext Markup Language which is used to create the structure of the
Web page and web applications. With the help of HTML, you can link one web page to
another using HTML hyperlink tag There are many tags in HTML and most of the tags has
it’s own attributes. Each HTML tag performs a different function on the web page. You can
create Tables, insert an image, send data to the server using input type tag with its attributes.
There are many websites on the Internet from where you can learn HTML like W3Schools.

Features of HTML

  • It describes the structure of the Web page. 
  • With the help of HTML tags, you can perform different functions on a web page.
  • Compatible with all popular every browser.
  • Platform Independent.

Structure of HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<HTML>
<head>
<title> Page Title </title>
</head>
<body>
<h1> This is a Heading </h1>
<p> This is a Paragraph </p>
</body>
</html>

Explanation: 
<!DOCTYPE html> define the document of HTML version.
<html> describe the web document. It is the root element.
</html> Everything you will write on a web page should be inside these tags.
<head> It contains information like author name, company, description, etc.
<title> It always writes inside the head tag. It specifies the title of the Web page.
<body> It contains the information which will be displayed on your web page. 
<h1> It is a heading tag that defines the heading of your document(web page).

History of HTML
HTML 1991
HTML2.0 1995
HTML 3.2 1997
HTML 4.01 1999
XHTML 2000
HTML5 2014

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