Introduction to HTML
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for building Web pages. HTML was created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1991 and released in 1995 as HTML v2.0. HTML 5.3 is the latest release published by W3C (The World Wide Web Consortium). HTML language uses tags which are identified by browsers and browser render that HTML code to a web page.
The software used for editing code is known as code editor and software which is used for converting the code to the visual website is known as a browser. You can also use notepad as a code editor and browser like internet explorer to run and render your HTML code to visual representation.
The basic structure of HTML code for a simple web page contains Head, Body and HTML tags. In the next unit, we will learn about tags and attributes used in HTML. Checkout codelab section for basic HTML code example.
HTML <!DOCTYPE> Declaration is mentioned before the opening of the HTML tag. This helps the browser to detect document type and note that <!DOCTYPE> is not HTML tag but it is just declaration for browser.