HTML - Language of Web Pages
HTML, the hypertext markup language is a subset of SGML, (invented by IBM
in 1969) defined by the W3C consortium. It is a document description language,
that uses tags for properties. This is the format recognized by web browsers.
DHTML, dynamic HTML, is the combination of HTML and JavaScript. The CSS,
cascading style sheet, adds the style sheet feature of word processor to
HTML.
Features
- Tag based, uses < > for delimiters.
- Unrecognized statements are ignored.
- Unlimited embedding of constructs.
Why to use HTML?
Writing web pages, but is also a standard format for any documents displayable locally by a web browser or a recent word processor.
See also
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Forms
HTML 4 forms and how to use them in JavaScript.
HTML Tools and Sites
Site of the consortium that defines the language. Specifications of all
standards and manuals.- Htmlhelp
Tutorials. - Kompozer
A free open source, well-designed, wysiwyg HTML editor. - Amaya
A wysiwyg HTML editor intended to demonstrate W3C standards for DHTML, XHTML, CSS... Open source. (Win/Linux) - Firefox
Extensions for Webmasters
Adding tools to Firefox for checking HTML pages.
Sample code
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Hello World
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<html>
<head>
<title>Html</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="scriptol.css">
</head>
<body>
Hello World!
</body>
</html>
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