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What Does HTML Stand For?


Hypertext Markup Language

As you can probably guess from the title, HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language and is a language used by web browsers to interpret and represent text, images, videos, audio and other mediums for people on web pages. HTML defines the structure of a website while other technologies their appearance (CSS) and behaviour (JavaScript). "Hypertext" describes the links between pages of content on the web that you can access immediately by clicking on said link. "Markup" refers to the method by which text, images, and other content is annotated to then be displayed. Examples of the these markup elemetns include <head>, <title>, <body>, <header>, <footer>, <article>, <section>, <p>, <video>, <ul>, <ol>, <li> and many more.

What is HTML Used For?

HTML was first developed by physicist Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in 1990 when looking for a way that researchers could share documents with each other. This was the foundation of the World Wide Web. HTML allows people to create and design web pages using elements such as paragraphs, headings, links, quotes, images etc. It is not a programming language, so doesn't have a dynamic functionality, rather it helps to organize and format a page. It uses simple coding to denote how each part of the page should look. For example, you could create a paragraph by placing the relevant text within 2 tags <p> and </p>. HTML is now an official web standard which is monitored and developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C

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Hyper Text Markup Language
chloe
07 June 2011
It is generally used to create basic elements of webpages. Whilst it can be used to code an entire website, more complicated websites will involve other programming languages in conjunction with HTML.
jon.ellis
08 June 2011
Hyper Text mark Up Language
kemi
18 February 2014
HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is the main language used for creating web pages. 
akay299
21 March 2014
HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup LanguageHTML is a markup languageA markup language is a set of markup tagsThe tags describe document contentHTML documents contain HTML tags and plain textHTML documents are also called web pagesBasically to design a web page the html tag is used.It's working on different tags. 
nihil
25 April 2014
HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language.(Hypertext Markup Language) HTML is the language used to create Web pages for display in Web Browsers. In short, it is the code for creating web pages, using tags and other commands that a browser reads and converts into the normal web pages that people see.Note:Browsers like Internet Explorer,Google chrome,Mozilla Firefox and Netscape Navigator etc can understand only html language.Simply we can say HTML is the "mother tongue" of your browser.For example webpages developed using java or .net languages are return in HTML language(browser understandable format) in order to diplsy on the browser.Example:Creation of the Textbox with the default value.<html><body>Zip code : <input type="text" size="5" maxlength="5" value="57464" ></body></html>With type attribute, you can tell the browser to create text box.With size attribute, you can tell the browser to create text box that accepts the no of characters specified in size attribute(limits the displayed width of the textbox).The size attribute only affects the displayed width of a text box but it does not limit the number of characters that could be entered into the text box. So if we are expecting at most three characters for an input, set the size of the of the text box to 3 and the maxlength of the text box to 3 as well. If you don't use the maxlength attribute to limit the number of characters to be put into the text box, any text longer than the designed text box will automatically start to scroll to the left. The following HTMl codeWith value attribute, you can set a default value for your text box. 
ajay.net
09 May 2014
HyperText Markup LanguageIt is the "language of the web" - it describes web-pages, and is rendered (i.e. displayed) by browsers.
alshapton
23 May 2014
Hyper text mark up language; Is essentially the web 'language' 
ollypowellgill
30 May 2014
HyperText Markup Language. HTML elements form the building blocks of all websites. HTML allows images and objects to be embedded and can be used to createinteractive forms. It provides a means to create structured documents by denoting structural semantics for text such as headings, paragraphs, lists, links, quotes and other items
monis
30 May 2014
HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup LanguageIt is the basic building blocks of all websites. The language instructs browsers to display text, objects and images to be displayed correctly. HTML gives a webpage a foundation on which you can build upon.
domitclass
21 June 2014
HTML or HyperText Markup Language is the standard markup language used to create web pages.HTML is written in the form of HTML elements consisting of tags enclosed in angle brackets (like <html>). HTML tags most commonly come in pairs like <h1> and </h1>, although some tags represent empty elements and so are unpaired, for example <img>. The first tag in a pair is the start tag, and the second tag is the end tag (they are also called opening tags and closing tags).The purpose of a web browser is to read HTML documents and compose them into visible or audible web pages. The browser does not display the HTML tags, but uses the tags to interpret the content of the page. HTML describes the structure of a website semantically along with cues for presentation, making it a markup language rather than a programming language.HTML elements form the building blocks of all websites. HTML allows images and objects to be embedded and can be used to create interactive forms. It provides a means to create structured documents by denoting structural semantics for text such as headings, paragraphs, lists, links, quotes and other items. It can embed scripts written in languages such as JavaScript which affect the behavior of HTML web pages.HTML markup consists of several key components, including tags (and their attributes), character-based data types, character references and entity references. Another important component is the document type declaration, which triggers standards mode rendering.The following is an example of the classic Hello world program, a common test employed for comparing programming languages, scripting languages and markup languages. This example is made using 9 lines of code:<!DOCTYPE html><html>  <head>    <title>This is a title</title>  </head>  <body>    <p>Hello world!</p>  </body></html>(The text between <html> and </html> describes the web page, and the text between <body> and </body> is the visible page content. The markup text '<title>This is a title</title>' defines the browser page title.)This Document Type Declaration is for HTML5. If the <!DOCTYPE html> declaration is not included, various browsers will revert to "quirks mode" for rendering
Jatin M.
22 June 2014
HTML or HyperText Markup Language is the standard markup language used to create web pages.
talescouto
25 June 2014
HTML (HYPER TEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE) USED FOR WWW (WORLD WIDE WEB) KNOWN AS WEB PAGE PROGRAMMING AS WELL.HTML IS NOT CASE SENSITIVE LANGUAGE.
07:33 on 30/06/14
30 August 2014
Hi. HTML stands for hyper text mark up language. It is the way/language computers use to format/create webpages. The language/code is written in the form of 'tags' which are read and used to design/edit the visual elements in a web page.Enjoy! Chris
Chris S.
30 August 2014
HTML stands for, 'Hyper-Text Mark Up Language'. It is the original way in which webpages are interpreted by a web browser. It determines the, 'look' and style of the page. When it calls a CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) file this can be a powerful way to control the style for a number of webpages - so that each webpage of a site looks the same. HTML consists of 'tags'. A tag is placed before and after a section of text to control how that text will look in the browser. Tags are placed within chevrons. Here is an example set of tags: <HTML>....</HTML> This example lets the browser know that it is dealing with an HTML webpage. The first tag appears as the first text in the webpage file and the last tag at its end. HTML files are typically stored with a *.htm or *.html file extension.
carl1
04 September 2014
Hyper Text Markup Language. Primitive language, used to develop web pages
saj
15 September 2014
Hyper Text Markup LanguageIt helps us to create web pages
samikaran
04 October 2014
HyperText Markup Language (or HTML) is coding (compute language)used to create the contents on website. You can view any HTML coding of a webpage by pressing CTRL + U. 
alix_2014
07 October 2014
It is Short for HyperText Markup Language. It is the language that websites are written in. 
emzsac
09 October 2014
Hypertext Markup Language
colouredsmurf
17 October 2014
HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. It can be thought of as a programming language that is used to place text, images and other contents on a webpage. It is the foundation of almost any page you visit on your browser. Although not a true programming language (it doesn't process or manipulate data, it is only a language that defines layouts), it's a great place to start if you want to get involved with computers, primarily because it's exciting and you can see the results of your learning almost instantly. It's where I started.
Avinash J.
28 October 2014
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