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HTML Summary
This tutorial has taught you
how to use HTML to create your own web site.
HTML is the universal markup language for the Web. HTML lets you format
text, add graphics, create links, input forms, frames and tables, etc.,
and save it all in a text file that any browser can read and display.
HTML or HyperText
Markup Language is
the main markup
language for
creating web
pages and
other information that can be displayed in a web
browser.
HTML is written in the form of HTML
elements consisting
of tags enclosed
in angle
brackets (like <html>),
within the web page content. HTML tags most commonly come in pairs like <h1> and </h1>,
although some tags represent empty
elements and
so are unpaired, for example <img>.
The first tag in a pair is the start
tag,
and the second tag is the end
tag (they
are also called opening
tags and closing
tags).
In between these tags web designers can add text, further tags, comments and
other types of text-based content.
The purpose of a web
browser is
to read HTML documents and compose them into visible or audible web
pages. The browser does not display the HTML tags, but uses the tags to
interpret the content of the page.
HTML elements form the building blocks of all websites.
HTML allows images
and
objectsto
be embedded and can be used to create interactive
forms.
It provides a means to
createstructured
documents by
denoting structural semantics for
text such as headings, paragraphs, lists, links,
quotes and other items. It can embed scripts written
in languages such as JavaScript which
affect the behavior of HTML web pages.
Web browsers can also refer to Cascading
Style Sheets (CSS)
to define the look and layout of text and other material. The W3C,
maintainer of both the HTML and the CSS standards, encourages the use of
CSS over explicit presentational HTML.[1]