Overview

Developed by the World Wide Web Consortium; HTML or the Hyper Text Markup Language, as its name suggests, is a markup language for Web pages. Today, the most important component of any web page is the text-based information that it contains. The question that arises here, for a lay man would be, that How to Manage or Define the Structure of all Text-Based Information on a particular web page? Well, the answer is HTML. The markup tags of HTML define the structure of the text-based information of a web page. HTML tags are used to denote various text-based information of a webpage as paragraphs, headings, links, bullet points etc. Various HTML tags can also be used to supplement the text with images, forms and other objects.


As explained in the section on structure of Wilbur documents, an HTML document consists of two major sections: HEAD and BODY. Each has its own permitted elements and requirements.
The elements themselves can also have requirements about where they may occur, and which elements may occur inside them. This is only important in the BODY section of a document. In here, elements can be grouped in two distinct groups: block level and text level elements. The former make up the document's structure, and the latter "dress up" the contents of a block.
The HTML comment is a special case.


How to start working with HTML? It is fairly simple; you just need a simple text editor and a little knowledge about various HTML tags and their respective functionalities. For instance <title> tag is used to add Title to your web page; <br> gives a line break in your webpage and so on. Another important point to note down here for all our readers is that an HTML document can include various embedded scripting language code like VBScript or JavaScript in order to implement semantics of a document. All HTML files have an extension of .htm or .html