HTML

Introduction to HTML

HTML FEATURES:

* Easy to use
* Loose syntax (although, being too flexible will not comply with standards)
* Supported on almost every browser, if not all browsers.
* Widely used; established on almost every website, if not all websites.
* Very similar to XML syntax, which is increasingly used for data storage
* Free - You need not buy any software
* Easy to learn & code even for novice programmers
* HTML was designed to display data with focus on how data looks 
* HTML is a markup language 
* HTML is a presentation language 
* HTML is case insensitive 
* HTML is used for designing a web-page to be rendered on the client side 
* HTML has it own predefined tags 
* HTML is not strict if the user does not use the closing tags 
* HTML does not preserve white space 
* HTML is about displaying data,hence static 
* HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) is a widely accepted web-design language. 
* HTML is responsible for the construction, and the total output, of a page.

Disadvantages:

*It cannot produce dynamic output alone, since it is a static language
*Sometimes, the structuring of HTML documents is hard to grasp
*You have to keep up with deprecated tags, and make sure not to use them
*Deprecated tags appear because another language that works with HTML has 
  replaced the original work of the tag; thus the other language needs to 
  be learned (most of the time, it is CSS).
*Security features offered by HTML are limited.

<div>  in html

• The <div> tag defines a division or a section in an HTML document. 
• The <div> tag is often used to group block-elements to format them with styles.

Note: Browsers usually place a line break before and after the div element.

Linking the external CSS to the html file is as follows:

1. This is the most common method of attaching CSS rules to an HTML document. With this method all of your style rules are contained in a single text file that is saved with the .CSS extension.
2. just write the line as given bleow in your desired HTML file.

           
 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mystyles.css" media="screen" />

1. Make sure you include the correct path to your CSS file in the href.
2. If the CSS file is in the same folder as your HTML file then no path is required (like the example above)
3. But if it is saved in a folder other than your HTML file, then specify it like this href="foldername/mystyles.css".
4. The media parameter specifies when the CSS rules are to be used, where "screen" indicates for use on the computer screen. 

    Note:  You can include multiple CSS files if required.





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