- "The HyperText Markup Language or HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser."
Understand the basics of HTML, the language used to create web pages.
HTML tags: These are the basic building blocks of HTML, used to define the structure and content of a webpage.
HTML syntax: Understand the correct syntax used in HTML coding both in terms of opening and closing tags.
CSS: Cascading Style Sheets is used for describing the presentation of a document written in HTML. Correctly implementing it can improve the look and feel of your website.
URLs and Web Browser: Understanding how a web browser works and how URLs function is necessary for creating and publishing your website.
HTML structure: How to properly structure an HTML document to provide consistency and ease of use for website visitors.
Audio and video: Understanding how to integrate media such as audio and video into a website, including how to adjust size and formatting.
Responsive web design: Creating content that is accessible and optimized for different devices like tablets, mobile devices, and desktops.
HTML Forms: Create forms for visitor input such as contact forms and query forms.
Accessibility: Making websites accessible to people with disabilities, including considerations for visual and hearing impairments.
HTML5: Learning about all the new tags, elements and semantic markup provided in HTML5.
Web Standards: Understanding the concepts behind WCAG and HTML standards to ensure that your website is up to specifications.
Metadata: Metadata provides information about a webpage. Learn how to use it to improve your site’s search engine optimization (SEO).
Images: How to properly insert and resize images on your web page.
Links: Create internal and external links to other web pages or resources.
HTML Entities: Representing characters or symbols that can’t be typed through the keyboard.
Tables: Learn how to use HTML tables to represent data in an organized way on your website.
JavaScript: JavaScript is a programming language that can improve the interactivity of your website (e.g., pop-ups or slide-in menus).
Search engine optimization: Learn basic SEO principles and keywords.
Web hosting and FTP: Learn how to publish your website and upload files to your web server.
Debugging: Understand how to identify and solve problems that may arise in your webpage.
HTML 2.0: This was the first official version of HTML, released in 1995. It introduced basic formatting tags such as for bold and for italic.
HTML 3.2: This version added more advanced layout features such as tables and frames, as well as support for additional character sets.
HTML 4.01: This version added support for style sheets, scripting languages, and multimedia content. It also introduced the
and tags, which allowed for more precise control over page layout.
XHTML 1.0: This version of HTML was designed to be more consistent with XML, with stricter rules for syntax and markup. It also introduced the idea of using application-specific XML schema languages.
HTML5: This is the latest version of HTML, first released in 2014. It adds new features for multimedia content, form input fields, and accessibility. It also introduces the idea of semantic markup, where specific tags are used to denote the meaning and structure of page content.
- "It defines the meaning and structure of web content."
- "It is often assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript."
- "Web browsers receive HTML documents from a web server or from local storage and render the documents into multimedia web pages."
- "HTML describes the structure of a web page semantically and originally included cues for its appearance."
- "HTML elements are the building blocks of HTML pages."
- "With HTML constructs, images and other objects such as interactive forms may be embedded into the rendered page."
- "HTML provides a means to create structured documents by denoting structural semantics for text such as headings, paragraphs, lists, links, quotes, and other items."
- "HTML elements are delineated by tags, written using angle brackets."
- "Tags such asand directly introduce content into the page."
- "Other tags such asand
surround and provide information about document text and may include sub-element tags."
- "Browsers do not display the HTML tags but use them to interpret the content of the page."
- "HTML can embed programs written in a scripting language such as JavaScript, which affects the behavior and content of web pages."
- "The inclusion of CSS defines the look and layout of content."
- "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), former maintainer of the HTML and current maintainer of the CSS standards, has encouraged the use of CSS over explicit presentational HTML since 1997."
- "A form of HTML, known as HTML5, is used to display video and audio, primarily using the
- "A form of HTML, known as HTML5, is used to display video and audio, primarily using the
- "A form of HTML, known as HTML5, is used to display video and audio, primarily using the
- "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), former maintainer of the HTML and current maintainer of the CSS standards."
- "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has encouraged the use of CSS over explicit presentational HTML since 1997."