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Introduction to HTML
 What is HTML?
 HTML History
 Sample HTML Document
 HTML Tags
HTML <HEAD> Section
 HTML <HEAD> Tag
 HTML <TITLE> Tag
 HTML <LINK> Tag
 HTML <META> Tag
HTML <BODY> Section
 HTML <BODY> Tag
 HTML Heading Tags
 HTML <B> and <I> Tags
 HTML <P> and <BR /> Tags
 HTML <OL> and <UL> Tags
 HTML <A> Tag
 HTML <IMG> TAG
HTML <TABLE> Section
 HTML TABLE Introduction
 Creating HTML TABLE
 Merginig Table Cells and Rows
 Designing HTML TABLE
Frames in HTML
 Introduction HTML Frame
 IFRAME in HTML
HTML <FORM> Section
 FORM in HTML
 HTML Form Elements
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What is HTML?

  1. HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language.
  2. HTML is used to develop static web pages.
  3. HTML is a machine independent and all web browsers recognize it.
HTML is very simple and text based language used to create static or interactive web pages.  The HTML file extension can either be .html or .htm but you can view the HTML code by opening the file even in notepad. HTML contains a very few basic elements to create a whole web page. It is a machine independent language and all web browser recognize it.

Using HTML, one can create a page with various sections, insert images and can even create a whole user interactive form having controls like textbox to get user input, button to perform a specific action. Even a layman can create a web site by just having a very basic knowledge of HTML.

This is not all, the HTML is the one of the most important building block to build dynamic web sites using ASP (Active server Pages), PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor), Asp.net etc, because the final result that these server side script languages produce is HTML only and HTML is the only language that web browsers recognize. So if you know HTML then you have great edge to move forward to web development or to create your own web site.
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Exercise
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