Introduction to HTML Lecture Notes

Comprehensive flashcards covering the history, versions, definitions, and common tags of HTML as presented in the lecture notes.

Berners-Lee

A physicist working at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, Switzerland, known as the 'father of the web' and the inventor of HTML.

HTML 2.0

The first definitive version of HTML which had most elements but did not support tables or ALIGN attributes.

Dave Raggett

The person who led the development of HTML 3 in late 1995 to upgrade the features and utility of the language.

HTML 3.2

The official version that integrated support for TABLES, image, and heading ALIGN attributes.

HTML 4.01

The current official standard that includes support for proprietary extensions such as FRAMES, EMBED, and APPLET.

HTML

Stands for Hyper Text Markup Language; a markup language used for describing web pages.

Markup Language

A set of markup tags used to describe web pages.

HTML Tags

Keywords surrounded by angle brackets, like , that usually come in pairs and describe web page content.

Start and End Tags

Also called opening and closing tags, these are the pair of tags that surround content in HTML (e.g., and ).

Web Browsers

Software (like Internet Explorer) whose purpose is to read HTML documents and display them as web pages.

HTML Element

Everything from the start tag to the end tag, including the element content.

Nested HTML Elements

HTML elements that contain other HTML elements; most HTML documents consist of these.

Empty Tag

An HTML tag that has no end tag and contains no content, such as
.

Attribute

Additional information provided inside the start tag, such as 'href' in the tag or 'src' in the tag.

HTML Comments

Code written as

An empty tag used to create a line break without starting a new paragraph.

---

An HTML tag used to create a horizontal rule or line.

Formatting Tags

Tags used to style text, including for bold, for italic, for underline, and for typewriter font.

The tag used to define subscripted text.

The tag used to define superscripted text.

The tag used to define inserted text.

The tag used to define deleted text, recommended over the deprecated or tags.

The tag used to define emphasized text.

The tag used to define strong text.