In this chapter, You can learn basic elements of HTML language, functionality, and the new set of coding rules, and so on.
HTML Standards
HyperText Markup Language is a series of tags which when added to documents allows for a degree of interactivity when viewing documents through the appropriate viewer. HTML structure can be divided into two main parts.
Head
This section stores information about the web page and most of the information typically doesn’t display. (One exception is web page title)
Body
The body is the main program section of the web page.
HTML page layout can be structured as given in the below diagram. It has clearly mentioned the order where the HTML tags are placed.
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1 2 3 4 5 6 |
<html> <head> </head> <body> <body> </html> |
HTML Page Layout Structure
Latest HTML version is a XHTML 2. But previous HTML versions are HTML 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 and 4.0. Latest HTML is HTML 5.x (Latest 5.2)
HTML 5
HTML 5 is a large evolution of the HTML standards and the latest iteration of classic HTML. There are lots of new features are available in HTML 5 than HTML 4.0 and previous HTML version, and also its focus on internationalization, and support for HTML’s new supporting presentational language, cascading style sheets.