What is HTML?

Key design princples: Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is designed to provide logical structure to information intended for presentation in web pages: Hypertext -- text with links to other text. Markup language -- annotations for structure of text. HTML has a fixed set of markup tags -- that is, syntax and semantics of language are predefined. Hypermedia facilitates development of multimedia web pages -- text, images, audio, video -- that can be linked togather in an arbitrary way. HTML syntax and structure is easy to learn.

Example. Here is the HTML code for the left-hand side of this page: <p> <font size=4 color="#52799E" FACE="Helvetica, Arial, Bold"> Key design princples: </font> <ul> <p><li> Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is designed to provide logical structure to information intended for presentation in web pages: <ul> <p><li> Hypertext -- text with links to other text. <li> Markup language -- annotations for structure of text. </ul> <p><li> HTML has a fixed set of markup tags -- that is, syntax and semantics of language are predefined. <p><li> Hypermedia facilitates development of multimedia web pages -- text, images, audio, video -- that can be linked togather in an arbitrary way. <p><li> HTML syntax and structure is easy to learn. </ul>

Section 2-1: November, 2001.