Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

Hypertext markup language (HTML) is a simple serializing language. It is a markup language used to develop Web Pages. HTML file is a text file containing small markup tags. The markup tags tell the web browser how to display the page for the user. Each individual markup code is referred to as an element. But many people refer it as a tag.


HTML is formal recommendation by the World Wide Web consortium (w3c). And it is generally adhered by the major browser: Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Netscape’s Navigator.
Some application software such as: Microsoft front page, Dream weaver, etc are also used to make web pages but they are also using HTML code. So, it is the fundamental building block of web documents having .htm or .html file extension. An HTML file can be created by using a simple text editor like Notepad, Word Pad, Text editor, etc.


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In 1989 AD, Tim Burners-Lee and Robert Calli submitted separate proposals for an Internet based hypertext system providing similar functionality. The first publicly available description of HTML document was called HTML tag. That was at first mentioned on the Internet by Burners Lee in late 1991 AD. The invention of HTML and HTTP both were by Tim Berbers-Lee, a computer and networking specialist at a Swiss research institute. HTML invented by him is based on Standard Generalizes Markup Language (SGML), which is prefers as international standard for marking up text for presentation on a verity of physical devices.

History of HTML
From the date of invention of programming language HTML it have five major standards according to their upgraded version and facility available, including the latest upgraded version in HTML 5. Except this it have version of HTML 1.0, HTML 2.0, HTML 3.2, HTML 4.0.

The brief details about these entire versions are as below:-
HTML 1.0 (1989-1994)
This is the earliest version of Hypertext markup Language and it was developed before World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Due to this region it was never specified by W3C. Mosaic 1.0 was specified HTML 1.0, and due to earlier version it support only few element and interesting work done in now days cannot be done. Only GIFs; JPEGs format were used as out-of-line image in place of in-line now days. There was limitation of almost every interesting like, background color or background image, no table or frame were available, there were no forms.

HTML 2.0
HTML 2.0 is lunched after development of World Wide Web Consortium (w3c) by the Internet Engineering Task Force HTML Working Group in 1996. It was launched by upgrading many feature of HTML 1.0 i.e. it supported forms such as text boxes and option boxes, change in page background, tables can be used.

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HTML 3.20
HTML 3.20 was launched on 1997 with upgrading previous feature and many new features which were not available in previous version like fonts, tables, applets, superscripts etc. Complex mathematical equation can be included in webpage. The <font> tag was added which creates some unnecessary complexity like separating HTML text from its style.

HTML 4.01
HTML 4.01 was launched in on 1999 by updating some minor feature of corrections and bug-fixes from HTML 4.0. HTML 4.0 was launched on 1997 in by deprecated the <font> tag. From this version style sheet (CSS) was introduced. By using style sheet it is now possible to change the appearance of the website. We can now design the webpage according to our need.

HTML 5
HTML 5 is the latest upgraded version in the history of HTML till date. It was launched on 2012 with new feature and functions. Some of the new feature available in this version is we can embed audio, video, graphic, client-side data storage and interactive document. This version supports almost every interesting what we are thinking with webpage. New elements like <nav>, <header>, <footer> and <figure> was added in this version.