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FEATURES OF HTML5
HTML5 provides new and better features over previous versions of HTML. Some of these are:
1. Empty tags can be closed with end tags.
2. HTML5 has in-built support for inserting audio and video content in a web page.
3. It incorporates graphics features such as CANVAS that let you create shapes, graphs and animations
in a web page.
4. It supports dynamic drag and drop of elements within a web page.
5. HTML5 supports CSS to create multiple web pages with the same formatting features.
HTML EDITORS
An HTML Editor is a software that allows you to create web pages in HTML. There are two types of HTML
editors – WYSIWYG and Text.
• WYSIWYG Editors: WYSIWYG stands for What You
See Is What You Get. WYSIWYG editors allow to
create web pages without any knowledge of HTML.
These provide a graphical interface and tools to
develop a web page and insert images, tables, audio, Google Web Designer Adobe Dreamweaver
and video in it. These editors allow a developer to
view a web page as it would appear in a web browser. Some popular WYSIWYG editors are Google
Web Designer and Adobe Dreamweaver.
• Text Editors: Text Editors allow to create web pages
by writing HTML statements to describe how the
content of the web page is to be displayed. Working
with a text editor requires specialised knowledge of
HTML. Some common text editors are Notepad and Notepad WordPad
WordPad.
Knowledge Discovery Subject Enrichment
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the primary group guiding the evolution of
HTML. The standards developed by the W3C give developers a set of common guidelines
to develop web pages and websites. You can visit the W3C’s website at www.w3.org. The
W3C adopted HTML5 in 2007.
HTML5 CODING
The various components that make up the HTML code are – Elements, Tags, and Attributes.
HTML Elements
A web page is made up of various HTML elements. These elements define the structure and behaviour
of different parts of an HTML document.
HTML Tags
HTML elements are represented by HTML tags. A tag is a command that instructs the web browser
how to display the desired content. An HTML tag always begins with a less than sign ‘<’ and ends with a
greater than sign ‘>’. E.g., <body> and <u>.
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