Class 9: Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

        Hypertext Markup Language or HTML is the language of computers. HTML makes it possible for computers to communicate with each other. Hypertext means that the code has the ability to create links to other pages as well as images and videos. Markup means that it is used to create pages of formatted text. These pages can also contain images and videos. HTML is truly what makes the internet as useful as it is. Without HTML, the internet would not be something that is used on a daily basis by the majority of the population. 

        There have been many forms of HTML created. Today the most standard form used is HTML 5.1. From the year 2000, up until October, 2014, the standard form of HTML was 4.01. Other forms of HTML that have been created are  2.0 and 3.2. HTML is the language that allows web pages to look and function the way they do. HTML makes going from web page to web page possible.

        People who code using HTML syntax use tags to identify page content and the content itself. When using HTML, you use opening and closing tags. For example <p> is the tag for a new paragraph. When coding you put that tag before anything else. At the end of the paragraph you put a closing tag (</p>. This signals the end of the paragraph. When coding you always put the closing tags in reverse order from which you typed them. For example if A, B, and C were tags you would put them in the document in this order; A B C C B A. There would be content in between those tags depending on what you want on the web page or document. 

In this image < and > represent tags. </> represents a closing tag. The colored words in between the tags represent the content.

To learn more about coding you can watch the video below.