What is HTML?

HTML meaning Hypertext Markup Language is used to create electronic documents that are displayed on the World Wide Web. Each page contains a series of connections to other pages called hyperlinks. It’s a form of computer language that’s used to make Web pages on the Internet viewable. It’s the fundamental technology behind everything you see in a web browser, and it’s used to build everything from simple web pages to complex web applications and services. HTML is easy to learn and understand. It’s the first and foremost language that the person will go through for the one who is learning web development.

What is the purpose and importance of HTML ?

HTML is the foundation of a website it contains the information that tells the browser what is on the page in terms of text, links, where to find images. We can also style individual words in HTML to make them bold, Italic, underline, etc. HTML allows images and objects to be embedded and can be used to create interactive forms.

HTML can embed scripts written in languages such as JavaScript which affect the behavior of HTML web pages. Web browsers can also refer to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to define the look and layout of text and other material. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a maintainer of both the HTML and the CSS standards, has encouraged the use of CSS over explicit presentational HTML since 1997.

One of the biggest advantages of HTML is that it is free of cost, and there is no need to purchase specific software. HTML supports almost all browsers around the globe. So there is no need to worry about the website written in HTML for the browser support as the website would easily show up in all the browsers if the program keeps in mind to optimize the website for the different browsers. Another big advantage of HTML is that one can see the changes instantly just by saving it and reloading the previous HTML page. Unlike other programming languages, there is no need to run the whole code and find out where the error is. For example, if you have made the word italic, it will show up instantly on the page once saved and reload.

For the programmer to be either a frontend or backend developer, one must have knowledge of HTML as it is the basic language and all the other languages integrate with it while coding like JavaScript, JSP, Php, etc. In this class, we are using HTML and I was curious to learn more about HTML know why is it so important. I chose to talk about this because since I am doing a double major and learning more about software development. HTML is a tool that is mostly used in software and wanted to do my own research to learn more about it.

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