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TutorialsTechnologies - HTML
HTML, or HyperTextMarkupLanguage, is the language that your web browser speaks.
Even though a web developer may create the web site coding in another language - such as PHP - all of these languages are translated so that your web browser need only worry about one of them.
HTML is not "code" per se. It is a markup language that uses set blocks to determine what content should be shown. It does not normally control how the content is presented though.
HTML looks like this:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>HTML | DataMouse.biz</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/style.css" />
<body><h1>Some header text</h1>
<p>Paragraph text for the body.</p>
</body>
</html>
Pretty basic really. Right click any site and select "view code" and you'll be able to see the mark-up for that site. In Internet Explorer (yuck), you can click View > View Source.
HTML is the content of your site shown on a browser. That content may come from elsewhere - such as a database or other site - but, essentially, that's al that HTML does; show your content.
HTML does have some limitations. It's not really a dynamic language. That means that it cannot (on its own) fetch information from a database, send complex form information or other such things. It also shouldn't include styling within it's language; although some very poor coders do this.
It's the styling of your site that gives the content it's colours, positions, fonts and other fun stuff. This is through CSS or Cascading Style Sheets.
