HTML is an acronym for Hypertext Markup Language and is a so-called markup language, referred to as a document description language. This will affiliations and characteristics of certain words within a text or a data set described or assigned.
This means that you can determine using this programming language, such as which words within a web page text to be bold or italic, and how the text is structured.
History
was developed in 1980, physicist Tim Berners-Lee for the European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN ENQUIRE administer the program, which scientists their records and documents and exchange information. Nine years later he devised a CERN fellow and then an internet-based hypertext system as the basis for the World Wide Web as we know it today, was originally in principle and should meet the same purpose as ENQUIRE. In no time, the project developed thanks to HTML to a global network of computers.
Task
As a document description language, HTML has therefore the task, the structure of a document in a unified form to describe that is as understood by all browsers worldwide. It is important that the typical elements of a document such as chapters, sub-chapter, lists, tables, paragraphs of text or graphics are called. It deals with the logical elements of the document. HTML was originally intended to be a purely logical document description language. It soon became clear, however, that this is not all the needs of Web pages could be met, so with modern HTML in addition to the logical and physical structures – just as text formatting – can be described.
Today, the average user no longer control the HTML programming language to use it. Thanks to modern so-called WYSIWYG editors (What You See Is What You Get = What you see is what you get) text may be like in a word processing program is written, formatted and set. The editors then convert them into HTML format requirements and provide the correct content on the website dar. full knowledge of HTML can not be replaced, as occurring in (display) errors only look in the source code to help you.