The latest articles on DEV Community by Partha Maity (@ytiamahtrap). https://dev.to/ytiamahtrap https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F620044%2F9363e4cf-aa1a-4cae-8288-70c8816f41ed.jpeg https://dev.to/ytiamahtrap en Partha Maity Sat, 24 Apr 2021 15:02:29 +0000 https://dev.to/ytiamahtrap/what-exactly-is-html-and-why-it-is-called-so-h0g https://dev.to/ytiamahtrap/what-exactly-is-html-and-why-it-is-called-so-h0g <blockquote> <p>So basically, <strong>HTML</strong> is a standard <em>markup language</em> for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser(Webpage).</p> </blockquote> <h3> Then, What is a markup language?? </h3> <p>Let's understand it through a simple example,</p> <p>Suppose I asked🙏 you to send <em>your favorite color</em> and <em>your pet's name</em>, and this is what you responded with -</p> <p><a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--CaMlhWXw--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/jvksb9dalhzjaxru3vfd.jpg" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--CaMlhWXw--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/jvksb9dalhzjaxru3vfd.jpg" alt="Your Response"></a></p> <p>Looking at the same, I got confused😕 about which of them is what??<br> So this time, I asked you for the same but with more precision...<br> and this is what I have got -</p> <p><a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--R86cOEME--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/8j0c1f3kv66t13oc8jfz.jpg" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--R86cOEME--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/8j0c1f3kv66t13oc8jfz.jpg" alt="Your Final Response"></a></p> <p>Finally! A clear response😌...</p> <p>So what you did the second time is what the job of markup language is...<br> We mark the text in a document to tell the <em>Web browser</em> what exactly is that text about<br> and in <em>HTML</em>, to mark those texts we use something called <strong>HTML Tags</strong></p> <p>For example -</p> <p><a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--EGBpUim4--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/tlanq9pxpdall5ng3rg1.jpg" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--EGBpUim4--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/tlanq9pxpdall5ng3rg1.jpg" alt="Alt Text"></a></p> <p>The above code tells the Web browser that <strong>Mumbai, India</strong> is an <em>address</em></p> <p>and this is why,<br> <strong>HTML</strong> stands for <em><strong>H</strong>yper <strong>T</strong>ext <strong>M</strong>arkup <strong>L</strong>anguage</em></p> <h3> HyperText?? </h3> <p>When HTML was first developed, they came up with the concept of <strong>hyperlinks</strong> through which a user can jump from one webpage to another and it was so revolutionary that they named the language after it.<br> and <strong>HyperText</strong> is just another name for <em>hyperlinks</em></p> html webdev codenewbie