Pubudu's Shadow Creations: Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

History and Evolution

What is this hypertext markup language? In short it means that is the language used to design web pages. HTML was born in 1980, for a system to “CERN”. The CERN is the European organization for nuclear research. First time those researchers won’t to share their documents. So Sir Tim Berners-Lee had written a software name call “ENQUIRE”. It was a simple hypertext program. After that it was the predecessor to the World Wide Web.

After that the first HTML document born in 1991 called “HTML Tag” is the simple design of HTML

How it works.

HTML is written by according to HTML elements. The text mixed with markup Tags. That tags enclosed in angle brackets. Like (<H1>Interdiction </H1>) according to this first tag is starting tag and the last tag is the end tag. We can call they are opening tags and closing tags .using this things we can create web page. We can add text, tags, comments, images for our web page.

Basic tag system

This is are the basic tags we used in web pages

<html>

<head>

<title>

</title>

</head>

<body>

<p>I am Pubudu Ratnasiri.I am from Kandy.</p>

<br />

</body>

<html>