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Introduction

• HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language


• HTML is the standard markup language for
creating Web pages
• HTML describes the structure of a Web page
• HTML consists of a series of elements
• HTML elements tell the browser how to
display the content
Introduction contd.

• Earliest (first) version in 1993 by Time Berners


Lee
• Latest HTML 5
• Most popular and widely used HTML 4.01
• XHTML an XML version
– GML
– Math ML
– Music ML
Sample HTML Program
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>My First Heading</h1>
<p>My first paragraph.</p>
</body>
</html> • <!DOCTYPE html> declaration defines this document is an
HTML5 document
• <html> element is the root element of HTML page
• <head> element contains meta information about HTML page
• <title> element specifies a title for the HTML page
• <body> element defines the document's body,
•container for all the visible contents on a webpage
•The <h1> element defines a heading 3
Meta tag
<meta name=“author” content=“author_name”>
<meta http-equiv=“cache-control” content=“no-cache”>
<meta http-equiv=“epxires” content=“mon, 22 Jul 2014,
11:12:01 GMT”>
<meta http-equiv=“keywords” content=“institute, noida”>
<meta http-equiv=“refresh”
content=“15;URL=http://www.yahoo.com”>

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