WHAT IS HTML?
HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language): A markup language used to structure text and multimedia documents and to set up hypertext links between documents, used extensively on the World Wide Web. HTML is a markup language that uses a fixed set of markup tags.
· HTML is a programming language in that an HTML document is a program that, when “run” by a browser, displays its text as Hypermedia.
· HTML itself is the set of customizable ‘markup” tags that are inserted into HTML document govern its format, multimedia content, and hyperlinks.
· The HTML is really only a collection of predefined tags which, when inserted into regular text, tell a web browser how to:
1. Format the document and its text.
2. Link into other locations, in the same document, in another web page, or even on another server.
3. Incorporate i.e. insert a graphic image, videos or sound clips into displayed document.
Features of HTML:
1. An HTML file can be created using a simple text editor.
2. HTML file must have an htm or html file extension.
3. An HTML file is a text file containing small markup tags.
4. The markup tags tell the browser how to display the page.
5. HTML is a display only technology.
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