Introduction to HTML

What is HTML?

1) HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
2) HTML is the standard markup language for creating Web pages
3) HTML describes the structure of a Web page
4) HTML consists of a series of elements
5) HTML elements tell the browser how to display the content
6) HTML elements label pieces of content such as "this is a heading", "this is a paragraph", "this is a link", etc.

HTML Tags :

1) HTML tags are keywords surrounded by angle brackets.
2) HTML tags normally comes in pairs.
3) The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the ending tag
4) Start and End tags are also called opening tags and closing tags

Advantages of HTML :

  • Every browser supports HTML Language.
  • HTML is light weighted and fast to load.
  • Do not get to purchase any extra software because it's by default in every window.
  • It integrates easily with other languages such as JavaScript, CSS etc..
  • HTML also allows the utilization of templates, which makes designing a webpage easy.
  • HTML is increasingly used for data storage as like XML syntax.
  • HTML has many tag and attributes which can short your line of code.
  • Disadvantages of HTML :

  • It cannot produce dynamic output alone, since it's a static language.
  • Making the structure of HTML documents becomes tough to understand.
  • It is the time consuming as the time it consume to maintain on the color scheme of a page and to make lists, tables and forms.
  • We need to write a lot of code for just creating a simple webpage.
  • We have to check up the deprecated tags and confirm not to use them to appear because another language that works with HTML has replaced the first work of the tag, and hence the opposite language needs to be understood and learned.
  • HTML can create only static and plain pages so if we'd like dynamic pages then HTML isn't useful.
  • Golden Rules To Remember :

    What To Avoid :