Hyper Text Markup language explained.
Markup Language
The World Wide Web is made up of millions of interconnecting web pages which are mostly written in HTML. HTML or “Hypertext Markup Language” is a markup language which is used to provide the means to interpret and format contents to be shown in an internet website browser.
HTML is not a real spoken language, but its commands are very close to the English language. HTML uses Tags and Elements to format the text and graphical layout of web pages some of which include tables, headers, paragraphs and lists.
HTML supports the styling of text, images, graphics and dynamic contents and is used to “mark up” a visually user friendly webpage, to a standard which modern internet browsers, can interpret and display to the user as the programmer or author intended.
Examples of Internet Browsers:
- Internet Explorer
- Moxilla Firefox
- Safari
- Opera
- Google Crome
An instruction is opened and closed with a tag, which is more commonly referred to as an element and is used to markup and display (or Render in the browser).
A particular text style: for example a larger font or specific color, is declared in the HTML tags, elements and their attributes.
HTML pages are normally saved with a .html or .htm extension. According to modern standards, it is now recommended to use .html as .htm is used in older versions.
For secure web pages the use of .shtml is used, indicating a secure page normally used for online transactions of data or online payments.
Conclusion:
HTML provides a means to structure and display web page contents that can be easily found by visual navigation.
Hyperlinks and Hypertext
Hyperlinks are the links that connect (or link) one website page or document to another and make up what we know as the World Wide Web. They are what we use and click on to connect to other websites when we Surf the net.
Hypertext is a normal text string (such as a title or line of text) displayed in the browser and which is formatted to provide a hyperlink or pointer to other pages or other items of text. This can be to somewhere on the same page or even another page in the same web site, which is commonly known as internal linking. Also a hyperlink can link to other web pages on other web sites: this is called external linking.
Example of a hyperlink:
This link takes you to the top of this page scroll down to get back hereThis hyperlink or link just goes to the top of this page. You will see other hyperlinks or links throughout this document to take you to online examples or sometimes other parts of the document.
Conclusion:
Hypertext is text formatted to be a reference or hyperlink to another web document.