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What is HTML? It's Advantages and Disadvantages


Html is a Hyper Text Markup Language based website. It has an extension name from .html or .htm. It is developed by W3C & WHATWG. HTML is extended from SGML and extended to XHTML. Html document are used to make website which include images, audios and other files. HTML files are written in notepad and run on search engine. It consist of coding called tags. It describes the structure of a web page.

Tags

It is an element which contains of coding and specify and how the webpage should be displayed and contain with some properties named as attributes. Tags are written using angle brackets<>.

Attributes

A special word used inside a tag to specify additional information to the tag like color, alignment, size, style, etc.

HTML Format
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
<Html> tag
Identifies the document as HTML type, starts with <Html> and ends with </Html>.
<html>
……..
</html>
<Head> tag
It contains information about the document title, scripts, definitions and document descriptions.
<Html>
<Head>
</Head>
</Html>
<Title> tag
It contains the document title which will appear on the browser title bar.
<Html>
<Head>
<Title>First Page</Title>
</Head>
<Html>
<Body> tag
This tag is used to display all information, attributes and tags within it to be displayed on the web page.
<Html>
<Head>
<Title>First Page</Title>
</Head>
<Body>
            Containing database
</Body>
</Html>

Tags are of two types on the website is totally depend
  •  Container Tags

A tag which required pair tags i.e. a starting as well as ending tags like
            <html>……</html>
            <body>…..</body>
            <title>…….</title>
            <head>…..</head>
The ending tag will be similar to the starting tag that it begins with a slash(/). It effect everything that comes between starting and ending tag. 
  • Empty Tags

This element doesn’t contain any ending tag, it only consist of the starting tag. Empty element are carried out for a specific job like
            <BR>    for break line
            <IMG> for image
            <LINK> for linking one page to other document
            <B>      for bold style


Types of Attributes

  • DIR Attributes

In this type of attributes the tag specifies in which the browser should present text within the entire document.
  • LANG Attributes

This attributes simply specifies the language you’ve generally used within the document.

Advantages and Disadvantages

Advantages
  • Easy to create webpage.
  • Easy editing due to plain text.
  • Texts are compressible so file download is fast.
  • Used to present easily about anything on a webpage.

Limitations
  • Take a lot of time to resemble a webpage.
  • Flexibility is not there like as in Dreamweaver.
  • All the web pages should be edited separately as it is not centralized.

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