What is HTML ? History of HTML & Different versions of HTML | HTML for Beginners

byNishat Tech Wala February 05, 2022

What Is HTML


What is HTML ? History of HTML & Different versions of HTML.


HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. In HTML language most of the websites are written. HTML is also known as (SML) standard markup language for creating web pages. It consists of a series of elements that tells the browser how to display the content in the browser. The code we use to make our site visually appealing is known as CSS (Cascading Style Sheet).

Note: About CSS we discuss in our later Post or Tutorials. First, we will teach you how to create a website then we will focus on how to make it visually beautiful.

History of HTML

HTML was created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1993. After that, there have been many different versions of HTML. The most used version of HTML Throughout is HTML 4.01.

Different Versions of HTML

  • HTML 1.0 was developed in 1993 this version of HTML supports only basic elements like text and images. This version of HTML is available with less support, fewer elements, and also has not the features like styling. This version of HTML also does not support the Tables feature.
  • HTML 2.0 was developed in 1995 with the basic update of HTML 1.0. This version of HTML comes with markup tags, forms tags but still, they had basic tags like text boxes, buttons, etc.
  • HTML 3.0 was developed in 1997 with the improvement in the version of HTML 2.0 Now it supports another Feature Name CSS (cascading style sheet) It Provides HTML To Looks Website Better in the Browser.
  • HTML 4.0 was developed in 1999 with fully featured. It is the successful version of HTML After Version 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0.
  • HTML 5.0 was introduced in 2014 this is the latest version of HTML. It includes lots of HTML elements and tags. It is also known as HTML5

What are HTML Tags?

HTML tags are used to format the content in the browser. There are various types of HTML tags. These tags are open and closed with their corresponding tags. Example, Opening tag of Html is <html> and closing tag is </html>, Opening tag of body is <body> and closing tag is </body>. Some tags are used only with closing tags.

19 Basic tags you need to know


Tags

Description

<!DOCTYPE html>

It is not html tag but it is used to define the document type

<html></html>

It is the main tag of Html if you are creating an Html file you have to you all your tags into this tag or under this tag

<head></head>

The head tag comes after the Html tag it contains only title, style, meta, etc tags.

<title></title>

The title tag comes after the head tag it is used to give the title to the content or website it does not include any other tag inside it.

<body></body>

Anyting you see on your website is written between this tag it comes after the head tag

<h1></h1>

This tag is used for heading

<p></p>

This tag is used for paragraph

<b></b>

This tag is used to bold the text or word

<i></i>

This tag is used to make the word italic

<u></u>

This tag is used for underline the text or word

<table></table>

This tag is used to make the table in the website

<thead></thead>

This tag is used in the table to give the heading in the top row

<tr></tr>

It is used for make the row in the table it contains at least one <td> and <th> tag into it

<br>

It is the line breaking command. It is used to break the line in the paragraph or file there is no closing tag for <br>

<ul></ul>

ul tag is used for make unordered list in the file

<ol></ol>

ol tag is used for make ordered list in the file

<li></li>

inside <ul> and <ol> tag we use list tag

<hr>

This tag is used to make the horizontal row between the content there is no closing tag for <hr>

<strong></strong>

This tag is used to declare the important text in your file and make it bold so the reader can easily read it
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