HTML 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.

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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

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For our readers, once again here is a brief overview of HTML

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language.
An HTML file consists of various markup tags that actually tell the browser about how to display the page.
HTML document may contain scripting language code as well like JavaScript, VBScript etc.
It is necessary for an HTML file to end up with .htm or .html as a file extension.
In order to create a simple HTML file, you are just required to use any simple text editor like notepad etc.