Web Page
 

A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible via HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol), a protocol that transfers information from the Web server to display in the user's Web browser.


 

HTML ( Hypertext Markup Language)


  • HTML is the predominant markup language for web pages.
  • It provides a means to describe the structure of text-based information in a document  HTML is written in the form of labels (known as tags), surrounded by angle brackets.
  • HTML can also describe, to some degree, the appearance and semantics of a document, and can include embedded scripting language code which can affect the behavior of web browsers and other HTML processors

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)


HTTP is a communications protocol used to transfer or convey information on intranets and the World Wide Web.

Its original purpose was to provide a way to publish and retrieve hypertext pages.

 

What is a Web Server?             
The term web server refers to,


  • the software that runs on a machine allowing some set of documents in it to be available to the rest of the machines on the Internet for viewing
  • the machine that runs the web server

Web browser


  • A web browser is a software application that enables a user to display and interact with text, images, videos, music and other information typically located on a Web page.
  • Text and images on a Web page can contain hyperlinks to other Web pages at the same or different website.
  • Web browsers allow a user to quickly and easily access information provided on many Web pages at many websites by traversing these links.
  • Web browsers format HTML information for display, so the appearance of a Web page may differ between browsers.

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