Hyper Text Markup Language

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It defines the content and structure of web content. It is often assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript, a programming language. Web browsers receive HTML documents from a web server or from local storage and render the documents into multimedia web pages. HTML describes the structure of a web page semantically and originally included cues for its appearance.

Development

The evolution of HTML (HyperText Markup Language) mirrors the growth of the World Wide Web itself. Here's a concise timeline of how HTML developed:

1. HTML 1.0 (1991–1993)
   • Invented by: Tim Berners-Lee
   • Purpose: To share simple documents across networks
   • Features: Basic structure-paragraphs, headings, links, lists, and images


2. HTML 2.0 (1995)
• Standardized by: IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force)
• Included all features from HTML 1.0 plus form elements (like <input> and <textarea> )


3. HTML 3.2 (1997)
   • Published by: W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
   • Added support for:
     • Tables
     • Scripting languages like JavaScript
     • Basic styles


4. HTML 4.01 (1999)
   • More structure-focused and cleaner markup
   • Introduced:
     • Support for styles via CSS
     • Separation of content and design
     • Forms, scripts, and multimedia improvements


5. HTML5 (2014 - Present)
   • Major overhaul and current standard
   • Developed by: W3C and WHATWG
   • Introduced:
     • Semantic elements (<section>, <article>, <nav>, etc.)
     • Multimedia tags (<audio>, <video>)

Features