HTML: HTML stands for Hyper-Text Markup Language. It allows us to create web pages. It does not include any control structure and can produce only static content. A HTML page consists of various tags that make a web page. The features, advantages and disadvantages of HTML page are listed below.
Features of HTML:
§ It is a formatting language for text and images.
§ It allows us to read the content nonlinearly by using hyperlinks to a file.
§ HTML is an application of SGML.
§ HTML uses markup tags to describe web pages
§ It is not case sensitive i.e. code can be written in small case or uppercase letters.
§ All the HTML documents have “.html” or “.htm” extension.
§ HTML documents can be edited using editors such as notepad or front page.
The advantages of HTML:
§ It allows embedding scripts, to generate dynamic content
§ It can incorporate images and sounds with the help of HTML tags.
§ It facilitates Moving and layered text
§ It allows framed documents
§ It allows absolute positioning of text and image.
§ Spreadsheets, video clips, pdf files can be embedded in HTML documents with the support of third party plug-ins.
The disadvantages of HTML:
§ HTML can produce only static content
§ It does not facilitate headers, footers, footnotes.
§ Mathematical typesetting is difficult
§ Browser Dependent
§ No tabs and other automatic character spacing
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