What is HTML?

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is a kind standard language used in web page designed to be exhibited in a web browser. It may be supported by Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript.

How it works?

HTML is a series of short codes inputted into a text-file by the site author. Then the text is saved as an html file, and viewed through a web browser (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox etc.) These browsers can read the file and transforms the text into an observable form or rendering the page as the author had planned. HTML entails writing using tags correctly to create your prospect. Anything can be used from a basic text-editor to a strong graphical editor to create HTML pages.

What are the tags up to?

HTML elements are the structure blocks of HTML pages. Through HTML images and other objects such as interactive forms can be embedded into the rendered page. HTML runs a means to form structured documents by signifying structural semantics for text (paragraphs, headings, lists, links, quotes etc.). HTML elements are described by tags using angle brackets. For example tags <img /> and <input /> straightly inaugurate content into the page. Further tags lilke <p> afford information respecting document text and may comprise other tags as sub-elements. HTML tags are not displayed by browsers, but use them to explain the content of the page.

HTML may embed programs bound in a scripting language like JavaScript, which can effect the performance and content of web pages. Insertion of CSS prescribes the look and layout of content.

How long it will take?

Actually, it relies on what you want from it. Knowing HTML will bear only a few days of learning the codes for what you want. You can understand the basics down in an hour. If you know the tags you can make HTML pages.

Still, using HTML and good web design is a different matter; Good website design defends on ability or talent. Acquiring techniques and right use of your tag knowledge will progress your work massively, and a well understanding of general design and the audience you’re attempting to reach will progress your website’s chances of victory. Fortunately, these things can be examined and understood, as long as you’re eager to work at it so you can get better websites.

Limitations of HTML

The initial limitation of HTML is that HTML tags do not define the meaning of the data involved in an HTML document.

HTML uses fixed and predefined tag set that requires formatting and tell a browser how to render data contained in these tags. But the tags do not bear the importance or semantics of data included in the tags. In several cases, the meaning of the data contained in a document is perilous. XML is developed to exceed this and other restrictions or limitation of HTML.

A common example in which this limitation of HTML is tricky in Web searches. While you try to search for a document on the Internet through web browser on the basis of a word or phrase, you will get thousands of matches.

Search engine does not use the HTML tags but in its place defends on keywords and meta-tags in the HTML document.