What's HTML and list its characteristics??
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HyperText stands for hyperlinks which connects one webpage to another webpage.
Markup stands for the structure of the page.
Note-:Markup is not code. Code makes programs and makes your page more attracting while markup only responsible for simple page's structure.
Characteristics of HTML-:
1. It is recognized by all the browsers like Chrome, Safari, IE etc.
2. It isn't case sensitive language.
3. It is very flexible to design web pages.
4. It can be run in any platform like Mac, Windows , Linux etc.
5. All the webpages today are written using HTML.
Note-:The styling and graphics of the webpage is usually done by embedding or using CSS and JavaScript which gave more dynamic view to webpages.
HTML - Hypertext Markup Language
HTML(Hyper text Markup Language) is a standard Markup language generally used for creating web pages and websites front layer. HTML is assisted with the programming languages CSS and JavaScript to display the documents on web browser. HTML is one of the easiest programming language that can be useful in creating web pages and designing websites with the front and back end layer.
HTML latest version is "HTML 5". HTML is a programming language by "WHATWG" and HTML is a type of document file language which helps us to display our documents and files on web-browser in the form of Website. Along with HTML, CSS and Javascript are also used to make the look and functions of site better.
HTML Tags:
There are three main types of Tags in HTML; Opening Tag, Closing tag and Content tag. Each tag have it's different functions and methods. This all tags helps us to run our program and documents without any error and correctly.
- HTML program is started using <HTML> tag. This tag indicates that, this is HTML code or text to be displayed in browser.
- Second tag in any HTML document is <Head> tag. This tag represents the title of the webpage.
- The most important tag; Body tag; Indicates the all visible content on the web. This tag represents the all sub-tags on the webpages.
- <p> - This tag represents the Paragraph on the webpage.
- <article> - This tag represents that, this is Article on the webpage.
- <h1> - This tag represents the heading; <h2> represents the subheading and so go on.
- <b> - Defines the Bold text.
- <i> - Defines the italic text.
- <u> - Underline the text on the webpage.
- <table> - To create a table like excel on website.
Advantages of using HTML:
1. HTML helps us to show our documents and files on the website.
2. HTML is a very easy language, so anyone can learn it and can do job.
3. HTML is easy language to program. This helps programmers to write the code for their websites without any error and without any mistakes.
4. HTML is free to use and easy to learn.
5. All browsers support HTML language.
6. It is simple to edit HTML documents.
7. HTML is a lightweight and it is basic of all programming languages.
Disadvantages of HTML:
1. Errors made while programming HTML can be very costly.
2. If we have to create dynamic pages, then HTML is not useful their.
3. There are some security issues using HTML language.
4. We have to write lot of codes to make simple web pages.
5. All browsers don't render the HTML codes same.
What is Dynamic HTML ?
Dynamic HTML, also referred as "DHTML" is basically a collection of various technologies. We can create only static web-pages using HTML, But DHTML can be used for creating dynamic web pages. DHTML is a collection of various technologies which helps us to create a responsive and interactive websites with animations and effects.