Basic HTML Tag

No book can be printed without paper and paper can be made only with raw materials. If you are planning to have your web site on World Wide Web then you need the raw material called the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). HTML is the authoring tool used to develop web pages.

By the mid 1970s, many government agencies, research facilities, and universities had networks called the ARPAnet, but each was running on its own internal network. The Army's system was built by DEC, the Air Force's by IBM, and the Navy's by Unisys. All were capable networks, but were on different languages. They needed a set of networking protocols that would tie together, separate networks and enable them to communicate with each other.

In early 1970s, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn released a paper on Internetworking that detailed a design, which would solve the problem. In early 1980s, this solution was implemented as TCP/IP. TCP/IP stands for Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol. With the advent of TCP/IP, the word Internet entered the networking field, which means interconnected network.

The Department of Defense declared that the TCP/IP is the standard protocol for internetworking military computers. TCP/IP has been added to most computer systems, including personal computers, and has become the new standard in Internet. It is the TCP/IP protocol set that provides the infrastructure for the Internet today.

Introduction to the TCP/IP Gopher site was a remar kable break through in TCP/ IP technology. Even though Gopher had many new features it lacked hypertext links or graphic elements. Gopher servers sprung up quickly all over the Internet, but it was immediately apparent that something more was needed.

The World Wide Web used three new technologies:

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) which is used to write Web pages.

HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) which is used to transmit those pages.

A Web browser client program to receive the data, interpret it, and display the results. HTML is a cross platform standard, which adheres to the standards set by ISO. So, the same HTML document can be viewed in different browsers on different platforms like Windows, UNIX, Macintosh etc. HTML works more like the old word processing package, WordStar. In WordStar, for printing a text in bold characters, it is stated and ended with a tag as shown.

/b Print the text in bold /b

In the same way, in HTML for formatting text, we use tags. The above operation of displaying text in bold is done using the following syntax.

<b> Print the text in bold </b>

Everything you create in HTML relies on marks, or tags. To be a successful HTML "programmer," all you need to learn is which tags do what. HTML becomes more powerful in real world page design when combined with Java and JavaScript, VIBScript, CGI programming, cascading style sheets, ActiveX controls, and other page design extenders and expanders.

HTML is used to create documents using tags that determine the structure and format. Hypertext documents can contain links to other information sources. Hypermedia is an extension of hypertext. Hypertext contains only the text, while the images, animations and other multimedia documents are contained in hypermedia systems.

Unlike other programming languages, HTML contains both the data and the markup tags in the same document.

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