What is HTML ?



HTML Stand for Hyper Text Markup Language, for creating web pages and application.
when a web browser opens a page of website, a document is received for its web server in the form of html, which the web browser coverts to a multimedia web page. HTML can embed program written in a scripting language such as JavaScript, which affects the behavior and content of web pages.


Why html is called markup language ?


HTML stand for "HyperText Markup Language".
  • Hypertext : Hypertext is a text which contain links to other text page. Hypertext documents are interconnected by hyperlinks, which are typically activated by a mouse click, by the screen. Hypertext is called a hyperlink. Anchor (<a>) tags of html can make any text a hyperlink, apart from this, images, videos, text, sound etc. can also made hyperlink.
  • Markup : Markup language is a computer language that used in "HTML Tags" to create web documents. Each html tag defines the text in between, that's is called markup.
  • Language : HTML is a scripting language for creating web pages.

Html Tools


There are two tools need in html.
  1. Text Editor :- Text Editor used for writing coding in editor, (Like- Notepad, Notepad++, Dreamweaver etc).
  2. Web browser :- Web browser used for run html file. ( Like- Google chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox etc.)

Create a Simple HTML Document


 <!DOCTYPE HTML>


<html>


<head>


<title> Create a simple html document </title>


</head>


<body>


<h1> Hello Html </h1>


<p> This is a first page </p>


</body>


</html>


Advantages 

  • HTML is easy to learn & use.
  • HTML is user-friendly.
  • Free - no need any software.
  • HTML is widely used.

Disadvantages

  • HTML is not extensible.
  • It can create only static and plain pages.
  • Security.

Uses of HTML

  • Web pages development.
  • Internet navigation.
  • Responsive images on web pages.
  • Game development.
  • Cutting edge feature