HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language, which is the most widely used language on the Web to develop web pages.
HTML was created by Tim 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, published in late 1999. Though HTML 4.01 is widely used, the current version is HTML5, which is an extension of HTML 4.01 and was published in 2014.
HTML is a markup language for describing web documents (web pages). HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. A markup language is a set of markup tags. HTML uses markup tags to describe web pages.
HTML tags are element names surrounded by angle brackets:
<tagname>content</tagname>
HTML tags normally come in pairs like <p> and </p>. The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag.
HTML was invented by Tim Berners-Lee while working at CERN. The first version of HTML was written in 1993. Since then, several versions of HTML have been released:
HTML is important because it is used to create and structure sections, paragraphs, and links on web pages. Without HTML, a browser would not know how to display text as elements or load images or other elements.
HTML5 is the latest version of HTML. It introduces new elements and attributes to help web developers. HTML5 supports modern multimedia, and it is designed to be usable across a wide variety of devices, including mobile phones and tablets.
<article>, <section>, <nav>, <header>, <footer>, <figure>, <figcaption>, and <aside><font><audio> and <video> elements