What is HTML?

  • HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
  • HTML is the standard markup language for creating Web pages
  • HTML describes the structure of a Web page
  • HTML consists of a series of elements
  • HTML elements tell the browser how to display the content
  • HTML elements label pieces of content such as "this is a heading", "this is a paragraph", "this is a link", etc.

A Simple HTML Document

 

Example

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
</head>
<body>

<h1>My First Heading</h1>
<p>My first paragraph.</p>

</body>
</html>

 

Web Browsers

 

The purpose of a web browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari) is to read HTML documents and display them correctly.

A browser does not display the HTML tags, but uses them to determine how to display the document:

Interview Question--

1. What does HTML stand for?

  • Hot Typing Markup Language
  • Home Typing Modern Language
  • Hyper Text Markup Language
  • Home Testing Mixed Language

Ans. Hyper Text Markup Language

 

2. Which one of the following headers has the correct HTML syntax?

  • <h1>Welcome</h1>
  • {{h1}}Welcome{{:h1}}
  • {h1:Welcome}

Ans. <h1>Welcome</h1>

 

3. Who invented HTML?

  • Tim Berners-Lee
  • Brendan Eich
  • Guido van Rossum

Ans. Tim Berners-Lee

 

4. What is a correct HTML markup for the document type declaration?

  • <!DOCTYPE html>
  • DOCTYPE html;
  • --DOCTYPE html;

Ans. <!DOCTYPE html>