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Markup Languages Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) is an ISO standard for defining markup languages. Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for web pages and is based on SGML. Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) is a stricter, XML-based version of HTML. Extensible Markup Language (XML) is also based on SGML and defines a standard for creating markup languages.

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HTML

Markup Languages Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) is an ISO standard for defining markup languages. Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for web pages and is based on SGML. Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) is a stricter, XML-based version of HTML. Extensible Markup Language (XML) is also based on SGML and defines a standard for creating markup languages.

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Markup Languages

•SGML - Standard Generalized Markup


Language.

• HTML - Hypertext Markup Language.

•XHTML - Extensible Hypertext Markup


Language.

•XML - Extensible Markup Language.


SGML - Standard Generalized Markup
Language.
An ISO standard for the definition of
markup languages

SGML is a language for defining markup


languages.

HTML is one such "application" of


SGML.
An SGML application consists of several
parts:
1. The SGML declaration: specifies which
characters and delimiters may appear in the
application.
2. The document type definition (DTD):
defines the syntax of markup constructs.
3. A specification that describes the semantics to
be ascribed to the markup.
4. Document instances containing data
(contents) and markup.
HTML - Hypertext Markup Language.
HTML is the standard markup language for
Web pages.
With HTML you can create your own Website.
HTML describes the structure of a Web page
HTML consists of a series of elements
HTML elements tell the browser how to
display the content
HTML pages are saved with .html extension
A Simple HTML Document
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
</head>
<body>

<h1>My First Heading</h1>


<p>My first paragraph.</p>

</body>
</html>
The <!DOCTYPE html> declaration
defines that this document is an HTML5
document
The <html> element is the root element of
an HTML page
The <head> element contains meta
information about the HTML page
The <title> element specifies a title for
the HTML page
The <body> element defines the
document's body
What is an HTML Element?
An HTML element is defined by a start
tag, some content, and an end tag:
<tagname> Content goeshere... </tagname>

<h1>My First Heading</h1>


<p>My first paragraph.</p>
HTML Page Structure
HTML Editors
A simpletext editor is all you need to
learn HTML.

Notepad or TextEdit
Notepad++
Sublime
Visual Studio
etc…..
XHTML EXtensible HyperText Markup Language

• XHTML is a stricter, more XML-based


version of HTML
• XHTML is HTML defined as an XML
application
XHTML is supported by all major
browsers
Why XHTML?

XML is a markup language where all


documents must be marked up correctly (be
"well-formed").

XHTML was developed to make HTML


more extensible and flexible to work with
other data formats (such as XML).

XHTML comes with a much stricter error


handling.
Most Important Differences from HTML

• <!DOCTYPE> is mandatory
• The xmlns attribute in <html> is mandatory
• <html>, <head>, <title>, and <body>
are mandatory
• Elements must always be properly nested
• Elements must always be closed
• Elements must always be in lowercase
• Attribute names must always be in lowercase
• Attribute values must always be quoted
• Attribute minimization is forbidden

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