Basic Computer Notions Introduction to HTML

Next 1 of 49 Separation of form and content Tags Identify file contents as HTML Identify file contents as HTML (cont'd) Head and body Head Head (cont'd) Head (cont'd) Head (cont'd) Body Paragraphs Paragraphs (cont'd) Emphasis Emphasis (cont'd) Emphasis (cont'd) Headings Lists Lists (cont'd) Lists (cont'd) Lists (cont'd) Address Line break Horizontal rule Links Links (cont'd) Links (cont'd) Links (cont'd) Links (cont'd) Links (cont'd) Links (cont'd) Links (cont'd) Links (cont'd) Images Images (cont'd) Images (cont'd) Images (cont'd) Images (cont'd) Links to images Links to images (cont'd) Links to images (cont'd) Links to other media Embedded objects Tables Frames Summary of elements Checking syntax Learning more about HTML Style guides for creating Web pages

Introduction

HTML = Hypertext Markup Language

HTML was invented (along with the World Wide Web itself) by Tim Berners-Lee (and Robert Cailliau) at CERN in 1990 (see A Little History of the World Wide Web)

The Web started to become popular with the release of the Mosaic browser (not the first graphical browser, but the first for Windows and Mac) by NCSA in 1993

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) controls the standard for HTML. The specification for HTML 4 was released 1997 December.

HTML is a specific markup language defined within the framework of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language). (SGML is very powerful but very complex and never became widespread.)

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