HTML

What is HTML?
HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) is a method where ordinary text can be converted into hypertext, It is a set of special codes included to control the layout and appearance of the text, HTML is not a programming language. It combines instruction within data to tell a display program called browser, how to render the data that the document contains.

Tim Berners-Lee developed HTML in early 1990 at CREN (council Europian de la Recherche Nucleaire), the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. HTML is a public domain and not owned by anybody. the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org) is the body, which controls the HTML Standard.

HTML is a subset of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language). SGML originated in 1960s at IBM to overcome the problem in moving the document across the multiple hardware platform and Operating System. INM's effort were called GML (General Markup Language) later in 1980 SGML came into existence.

Tag or Tag element refers to the HTML codes that define the element in an HTML file, such as headings, paragraphs and list. there are two kinds of tags - the container tag and empty tag (HTML tags are inserted into a document between < and > symbols. Tags are not case-sensitive.

Try yourself.
1. Load any text editor (Notepad, WordPad, Word, TextPlus)
2. Create the HTML file and save it, with .HTM or .HTML extension.
3. Open saved file in Browser (IE, Netscape) to view.

HTML Sample Code/Tag.
There is more than 50 sample code you can try for document structure, formatting, form, frame, tables, hyperlinks, displaying images. Get Sample code 

HTML FAQ.
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HTML Resource
1. www.w3.org
2. www.w3school.com