This chapter will give a short history of the evolution of HTML and CSS. It will describe the relationship between HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It also shows the basic format of an HTML tag and goes through the detail of a minimal HTML page.
Learning Outcomes for this Chapter
Upon completion of the reading of this chapter and assignments found at the end, a student should be able to:
- explain the HTML, as a base technology of the Web, is an ever evolving and changing language,
- recall that HTML was originally created in the late 1980’s by a scientist, Tim Berners-Lee,
- differentiate the difference between null or void tags and tags with a required ending,
- implement basic tag nesting,
- recall and use the required parts of a properly formed HTML tag.