Learning About HTML
History of HTML
1989: Tim Berners-Lee inventes the Web with HTML as its publishing language.
HTML has had a life-span of roughly seven years. During that time, it has evolved from a simple language with a small number of tags, HTML+, to a complex system of mark-up, HTML 4, enabling authors to create all-singing-and-dancing Web pages complete with animated images, sound, and all manner of gimmicks.
In 1989, Tim was working in a computing services section of CERN when he came up with the concept. Tim had the idea of enabling researchers from remote sites in the world to organize and pool together information. But far from simply making available a large number of research documents as files that could be downloaded to individial computers, he suggested that you could actually link the text in the files together.
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Characteristics of HTML
- HTML is a structured language in that there are guidelines controlling the markup of HTML documents.
- HTML documents are made up of tagged elements that can be either container tags or empty tags.
- It is a markup language that focuses on tagging the content of a page so that it can be displayed appropriately on different platforms by different software.
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| MAJOR CONTAINER ELEMENTS OF ALL HTML DOCS
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| Name of Tag |
Actual Tags |
What They Do |
| Header Tag |
>title<>/title< |
Puts the name of the document in the title bar |
| Body Color |
>body bgcolor=?< |
Sets the background color, using name or hex value |
| Text Color |
>body text=?< |
Sets the text color, using name or hex value |
