HTML

Introduction
HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) is a markup language used to describe web pages using tags. HTML tags are specific words between angular brakets "< >". Most HTML tags come in pairs, for example:   or     .

Creating A Web Page In HTML
You can create an HTML page using any text editor. You then give it an extension of ".html" or ".htm". An HTML page starts with the   tag and finishes with the   tag. Most tags can be nested within other tags. For example:

Code Welcome to the website.

In the example above,   denotes the start of the page. All elements nested in the   tag will be displayed on the screen.    tells the browser to display a paragraph. Note that all the tags that begin with a '/' simply close the corresponding tag.

Browsers
A browser is an application that reads and displays HTML pages. It does not display the HTML tags but uses the tags to interpret the content.

Combining HTML with other Languages
To make pages more dynamic, flashy and user-friendly, you can combine HTML with other web development languages such as JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets, PHP, AJAX and many more. HTML is just the basics of web design.

XHTML
XHTML is a cleaner, stricter version of HTML. It was created for mobile devices capable of browsing the internet, but don't have the resources to interpret bad HTML markup.