2. HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language, which
is the most widely used language on Web to develop
web pages.
HTML was created by Berners-Lee in late 1991 but
"HTML 2.0" was the first standard HTML specification
which was published in 1995. HTML 4.01 was a major
version of HTML and it was published in late 1999.
Though HTML 4.01 version is widely used but
currently we are having HTML-5 version which is an
extension to HTML 4.01, and this version was
published in 2012.
3. HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language, and it
is the most widely used language to write Web Pages.
Hypertext refers to the way in which Web pages
(HTML documents) are linked together. Thus, the link
available on a web page is called Hypertext.
As its name suggests, HTML is a Markup
Language which means you use HTML to simply
"mark-up" a text document with tags that tell a Web
browser how to structure it to display.
4. HTML Document Structure
A typical HTML document will have the following
structure −
<html>
<head>
Document header related tags
</head>
<body>
Document body related tags
</body>
</html>
5. The HTML document itself begins with <html> and
ends with </html>.
The visible part of the HTML document is between
<body> and </body>.
6. 1
<!DOCTYPE>
This tag defines the document type and HTML version.
2
<html>
This tag encloses the complete HTML document and mainly comprises of document header
which is represented by <head>...</head> and document body which is represented by
<body>...</body> tags.
3
<head>
This tag represents the document's header which can keep other HTML
tags like <title>, <link> etc.
4
<title>
The <title> tag is used inside the <head> tag to mention the document title.
5
<body>
This tag represents the document's body which keeps other HTML tags like <h1>, <div>,
<p> etc.
6
<h1>
This tag represents the heading.
7
<p>
This tag represents a paragraph.
7. HTML headings are defined with the <h1> to <h6> tags.
<h1> defines the most important heading.
<h6> defines the least important heading:
Example:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h1>This is heading 1</h1>
<h2>This is heading 2</h2>
<h3>This is heading 3</h3>
<h4>This is heading 4</h4>
<h5>This is heading 5</h5> <h6>This is heading 6</h6>
</body>
</html>
8. HTML - Elements
An HTML element is defined by a starting tag. If the
element contains other content, it ends with a closing
tag, where the element name is preceded by a forward
slash as shown below with few tags −
9.
10. Nested HTML Elements
It is very much allowed to keep one HTML element inside
another HTML element
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Nested Elements Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is <i>italic</i> heading</h1>
<p>This is <u>underlined</u> paragraph</p>
</body>
</html>
12. An attribute is used to define the characteristics of an
HTML element and is placed inside the element's opening
tag. All attributes are made up of two parts − a name and
a value
The name is the property you want to set. For example, the
paragraph <p> element in the example carries an attribute
whose name is align, which you can use to indicate the
alignment of paragraph on the page.
The value is what you want the value of the property to be
set and always put within quotations. The below example
shows three possible values of align attribute: left,
center and right.
13. <!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Align Attribute Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p align = "left">This is left aligned</p>
<p align = "center">This is center aligned</p>
<p align = "right">This is right aligned</p>
</body>
</html>
14.
15. Bold Text
Anything that appears within <b>...</b> element, is
displayed in bold as shown below −
<html>
<head>
<title>Bold Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word uses a <b>bold</b> typeface.</p>
</body>
</html>
17. Italic Text : Anything that appears within <i>...</i> element
is displayed in italicized as shown below −
<html>
<head>
<title>Italic Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word uses an <i>italicized</i>
typeface.</p>
</body>
</html>
19. Underlined Text :- Anything that appears within
<u>...</u> element, is displayed with underline as shown
below −
<html>
<head>
<title>Underlined Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word uses an <u>underlined</u>
typeface.</p>
</body>
</html>
21. Strike Text : Anything that appears within
<strike>...</strike> element is displayed with strikethrough,
which is a thin line through the text as shown below −
<html>
<head>
<title>Strike Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word uses a <strike>strikethrough</strike>
typeface.</p>
</body>
</html>
23. Superscript Text : The content of a <sup>...</sup> element is
written in superscript; the font size used is the same size as the
characters surrounding it but is displayed half a character's height
above the other characters.
<html>
<head>
<title>Superscript Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word uses a <sup>superscript</sup>
typeface.</p>
</body>
</html>
25. Subscript Text : The content of a <sub>...</sub> element is
written in subscript; the font size used is the same as the characters
surrounding it, but is displayed half a character's height beneath the
other characters.
<html>
<head>
<title>Subscript Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word uses a <sub>subscript</sub>
typeface.</p>
</body>
</html>
27. Inserted Text : Anything that appears
within <ins>...</ins> element is displayed as inserted text.
Deleted Text : Anything that appears within <del>...</del>
element, is displayed as deleted text.
<html>
<head>
<title>Deleted Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>I want to drink <del>cola</del> <ins>wine</ins></p>
</body>
</html>
28.
29. Larger Text : The content of the <big>...</big> element is
displayed one font size larger than the rest of the text
surrounding it as shown below −
<html>
<head>
<title>Larger Text Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>The following word uses a <big>big</big> typeface.</p>
</body>
</html>
31. Comment is a piece of code which is ignored by any
web browser. It is a good practice to add comments into
your HTML code, especially in complex documents, to
indicate sections of a document, and any other notes to
anyone looking at the code. Comments help you and
others understand your code and increases code
readability.
HTML comments are placed in between
<!-- ... --> tags. So, any content placed with-in <!-- ... ->
tags will be treated as comment and will be completely
ignored by the browser.
34. Multi line Comments
So far we have seen single line comments, but HTML
supports multi-line comments as well. Can comment
multiple lines by the special beginning tag
<!-- and ending tag --> placed before the first line and
end of the last line as shown in the given example below.
37. Insert Image : Can insert any image in your web page
by using <img> tag. Following is the simple syntax to
use this tag.
<img src = "Image URL" ... attributes-list/>
The <img> tag is an empty tag, which means that, it
can contain only list of attributes and it has no closing
tag.
38. Definition and Usage
The <img> tag is used to embed an image in an HTML
page.
Images are not technically inserted into a web page;
images are linked to web pages. The <img>tag creates
a holding space for the referenced image.
The <img>tag has two required attributes:
src - Specifies the path to the image
alt - Specifies an alternate text for the image, if the
image for some reason cannot be displayed
41. Set Image Width/Height
You can set image width and height based on your
requirement using width and height attributes. Can
specify width and height of the image in terms of either
pixels or percentage of its actual size
43. Set Image Border
By default, image will have a border around it, you can
specify border thickness in terms of pixels using border
attribute. A thickness of 0 means, no border around the
picture.
47. A link is specified using HTML tag <a>. This tag is
called anchor tag and anything between the opening
<a> tag and the closing </a> tag becomes part of the
link and a user can click that part to reach to the linked
document. Following is the simple syntax to use <a>
tag.
<a href = "Document URL" ... attributes-list>Link
Text</a>
50. The target Attribute
We have used target attribute in our previous example.
This attribute is used to specify the location where
linked document is opened. Following are the possible
options
51. Sr. No Option & Description
1
_blank
Opens the linked document in a new window or tab.
2
_self
Opens the linked document in the same frame.
3
_parent
Opens the linked document in the parent frame.
4
_top
Opens the linked document in the full body of the window.
5
targetframe
Opens the linked document in a named targetframe.
52. The HTML tables allow web authors to arrange data
like text, images, links, other tables, etc. into rows and
columns of cells. The HTML tables are created using
the <table> tag in which the <tr> tag is used to create
table rows and <td> tag is used to create data cells.
55. Table Heading
Table heading can be defined using <th> tag. This tag
will be put to replace <td> tag, which is used to
represent actual data cell.
Normally will put your top row as table heading as
shown below, otherwise you can use <th> element in
any row. Headings, which are defined in <th> tag are
centered and bold by default.
58. Cellpadding and Cellspacing Attributes
There are two attributes called cellpadding and
cellspacing which will use to adjust the white space in
your table cells. The cellspacing attribute defines space
between table cells, while cellpadding represents the
distance between cell borders and the content within a
cell.
60. Colspan and Rowspan Attributes
You will use colspan attribute if you want to merge two
or more columns into a single column. Similar way you
will use rowspan if you want to merge two or more
rows.
62. Tables Backgrounds
You can set table background using one of the
following two ways –
bgcolor attribute − You can set background color for
whole table or just for one cell. background attribute
− You can set background image for whole table or just
for one cell.
You can also set border color also
using bordercolor attribute.
64. Table Height and Width
You can set a table width and height
using width and height attributes. You can specify
table width or height in terms of pixels or in terms of
percentage of available screen area.
<table border = "1" width = "400" height = "150">
65. HTML offers web authors three ways for specifying lists
of information. All lists must contain one or more list
elements. Lists may contain −
<ol> − An ordered list. This will use different schemes
of numbers to list your items.
<ul> − An unordered list. This will list items using
plain bullets.
<dl> − A definition list. This arranges your items in the
same way as they are arranged in a dictionary.
78. <html>
<body>
<h2>The start attribute</h2>
<p>By default, an ordered list will start counting from 1. Use the start
attribute to start counting from a specified number:</p>
<ol start="50">
<li>Coffee</li>
<li>Tea</li>
<li>Milk</li>
</ol>
<ol type="I" start="50">
<li>Coffee</li>
<li>Tea</li>
<li>Milk</li>
</ol>
</body>
</html>
79.
80. An unordered list starts with the <ul> tag. Each list
item starts with the <li> tag.
The list items will be marked with bullets (small black
circles) by default:
83. Example - Circle
<html>
<body>
<h2>Unordered List with Circle Bullets</h2>
<ul style="list-style-type:circle;">
<li>Coffee</li>
<li>Tea</li>
<li>Milk</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
84.
85. A description list is a list of items with a description or
definition of each item.
The description list is created using <dl> element.
The <dl> element is used in conjunction with
the <dt> element which specify a term, and
the <dd> element which specify the term's definition.
Browsers usually render the definition lists by placing
the terms and definitions in separate lines, where the
term's definitions are slightly indented. Here's an
example:
88. Introduction to HTML forms
An HTML form is a section of a document containing
normal content, markup, special elements
called controls (checkboxes, radio buttons, menus,
etc.), and labels on those controls.
89. The HTML <form> element is used to create an HTML
form for user input:
<form>
.
form elements
.
</form>
The <form> element is a container for different types of
input elements, such as: text fields, checkboxes, radio
buttons, submit buttons, etc.
90. The HTML <input> element is the most used form
element.
An <input> element can be displayed in many ways,
depending on the type attribute.
Type Description
<input type="text"> Displays a single-line text input field
<input type="radio">
Displays a radio button (for selecting one
of many choices)
<input type="checkbox">
Displays a checkbox (for selecting zero or
more of many choices)
<input type="submit">
Displays a submit button (for submitting
the form)
<input type="button"> Displays a clickable button
91. The <input type="text"> defines a single-line input field
for text input.
Example
A form with input fields for text:
<form>
<label for="fname">First name:</label><br>
<input type="text" id="fname" name="fname"><br>
<label for="lname">Last name:</label><br>
<input type="text" id="lname" name="lname">
</form>
92.
93. Notice the use of the <label> element in the example
above.
The <label> tag defines a label for many form
elements.
The <label> element is useful for screen-reader users,
because the screen-reader will read out loud the label
when the user focus on the input element.
94. Checkboxes are used when more than one option is
required to be selected. They are also created using
HTML <input> tag but type attribute is set
to checkbox..
Example
Here is an example HTML code for a form with two
checkboxes −
95. <html>
<head> <title>Checkbox Control</title> </head>
<body>
<form>
<input type = "checkbox" name = "maths" value = "on"> Maths
<input type = "checkbox" name = "physics" value = "on"> Physics
</form> </body> </html>
96.
97. Radio buttons are used when out of many options, just
one option is required to be selected.
They are also created using HTML <input> tag but type
attribute is set to radio.
Example
Here is example HTML code for a form with two radio
buttons −
98. <html> <head> <title>Radio Box Control</title> </head>
<body>
<form>
<input type = "radio" name = "subject" value = "maths"> Maths
<input type = "radio" name = "subject" value = "physics"> Physics
</form>
</body>
</html>
99.
100. A select box, also called drop down box which provides
option to list down various options in the form of drop
down list, from where a user can select one or more
options.
101. <html> <head> <title>Select Box Control</title> </head>
<body>
<form>
<select name = "dropdown">
<option value = "Maths" selected>Maths</option>
<option value = "Physics">Physics</option> </select>
</form>
</body>
</html>
102.
103. There are various ways in HTML to create clickable
buttons.
You can also create a clickable button using <input>tag
by setting its type attribute to button.
104.
105.
106. HTML frames are used to divide your browser window
into multiple sections where each section can load a
separate HTML document.
A collection of frames in the browser window is
known as a frameset.
The window is divided into frames in a similar way the
tables are organized: into rows and columns.
107. 1. One of the most beneficial feature of frames is it lets
the user to have multiple pages in the same browser.
2. Using frames we can keep one part of the page static
while changing the other parts of the page.
3. If we create a top frame we can use it as a header i.e,
as that page is static it acts like an include page.
4. Frames can be used to reduce server load, as there is
no need to reload all the pages when ever a new page is
visited.
108. There are few drawbacks with using frames, so it's never
recommended to use frames in your webpages
Some smaller devices cannot cope with frames often
because their screen is not big enough to be divided up.
Sometimes your page will be displayed differently on
different computers due to different screen resolution.
The browser's back button might not work as the user
hopes.
There are still few browsers that do not support frame
technology.
109. To use frames on a page we use <frameset> tag instead
of <body> tag.
The <frameset> tag defines, how to divide the window
into frames.
The rows attribute of <frameset> tag defines
horizontal frames and cols attribute defines vertical
frames.
Each frame is indicated by <frame> tag and it defines
which HTML document shall open into the frame.
