HTML Introduction
What is HTML?
HTML
is the standard markup language for creating Web pages.
- HTML
is Hyper Text Markup Language
- HTML
is the standard markup language for creating Web pages
- HTML
describes the structure of a Web page
- HTML
consists of a series of elements
- HTML
elements tell the browser how to display the content
HTML History
Since the early days of the World Wide Web, there have been many
versions of HTML:
Year |
Version |
1989 |
Tim Berners-Lee invented www |
1991 |
Tim Berners-Lee invented HTML |
1993 |
Dave Raggett drafted HTML+ |
1995 |
HTML Working Group defined
HTML 2.0 |
1997 |
W3C Recommendation: HTML 3.2 |
1999 |
W3C Recommendation: HTML 4.01 |
2000 |
W3C Recommendation: XHTML 1.0 |
2008 |
WHATWG HTML5 First Public
Draft |
2012 |
WHATWG HTML5 Living Standard |
2014 |
W3C Recommendation: HTML5 |
2016 |
W3C Candidate Recommendation:
HTML 5.1 |
2017 |
W3C Recommendation: HTML5.1 2nd Edition |
2017 |
W3C Recommendation: HTML5.2 |