HTTP – Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP stands for hypertext markup language and is the main markup language for creation of web pages. It defines how data is structured and informs the web browser how the page is to be displayed with the use of formatting text and images.
Some of the page elements that can be coded with HTML include Page Titles, Text (paragraphs, lines and phrases), Lists (unordered, ordered and definition lists), Tables, Forms, Basic HTML Data Types (character data, colors, lengths, content types, etc) and much more.
The source html code of any webpage is available by simply clicking “Page Source” in a web browser such as Firefox or Internet Explorer.
HTML is not a programming language and therefore is quite static in nature. It is considered to be a subset of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language).
Tim Berners Lee first described HTML and it was publicly available in 1991 via a document called “HTML Tags”.
HTML became an international standard (ISO/IEC 15445:2000) and its specifications are maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) of which commercial software vendors offer input.
Submitted by Jacqui Jones – Netconcepts
