About HTML 5

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the most commonly used markup language for creating Web pages. A markup language describes the structure of text-based information on a Web page. Hypertext is similar to regular text with the additional advantage that when you click the hypertext present on a Web page, through the pages using the hypertext is not linear. It means that if you click the hypertext present on a Web page, the Web page you are redirected to is not necessarily the next page on the website. It can be any page on the same website or on the Internet. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an organization, which defines new specifications for HTML and is responsible for updating the language.

HTML allows you to format, arrange, and group text, display text as links, and add images and multimedia to a Web page. It also allows you to create controls, create and work with style sheets, and embed scripting language code (such as JavaScript code) into a Web page.

In short, HTML is a computer language that you can use to create a website in a presentable format and display information on the Internet.

In this chapter, you learn about HTML 5 in detail. You also learn about HTML markup and the basic structure of an HTML document. In addition to this you also learn to create, save, open, modify the background, and specify metadata about the web page using HTML.

Let’s begin with the basics of HTML 5.