HTML Introduction | Getting Started with HTML | HTML Overview
What Is HTML?
HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language.
It is a language for creating hypertext documents that can be viewed on the World Wide Web.
Web pages are also called HTML documents and are made up of HTML tags.
Each HTML tag is used to determine the design or function of a web page.
Writing HTML
HTML documents can be written with basic editors such as Notepad on Windows or vi on Linux.
After writing an HTML document, save it with the .html or .htm extension, and you can view it directly in a web browser.
HTML Versions
| Version | Year | Description |
|---|---|---|
| HTML | 1991 | The first HTML announced by Tim Berners-Lee |
| HTML 2.0 | 1995 | The first HTML established as an international standard |
| HTML 3.2 | 1997 | The first HTML established by the W3C |
| HTML 4.01 | 1999 | The biggest change was that all visual tags were marked as deprecated |
| XHTML 1.0 | 2000 | XHTML, an independent language that recreated HTML 4.01 by using XML 1.0 |
| HTML5 | 2014 | The latest version of HTML |
W3C
W3C stands for World Wide Web Consortium.
W3C is a neutral organization that establishes and manages standards for the World Wide Web, or WWW.
Representative web standards managed by W3C include the following.
- HTML
- CSS
- DOM
- SVG
- XHTML
- XML