Introduction to HTML |
The word HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language • HyperText is the method by which you move around on the web — by clicking on special text called hyperlinks which takes you to different pages. • Markup is what HTML tags do to the text inside them. They mark it as a certain type of text. I will show you in just second what this means. How does HTML work?HTML uses a series of short codes called tags. These tags are used to format your text for presentation. HTML is purely a presentation language. If you need to include logic in your code, you will need to combine HTML with other languages such as JavaScript, PHP, JSP, ASP and many others. Basically, what you do is you pick a tag that is suitable for how you want your text or images to look, and then enclose your text or image within the tag. For example, HTML uses the tag <u > </u> to underline the text. If you wanted to display test as underlined, you would then use the following statement: <u> Here is my underlined text </u> This will make your browser display the text as : Here is my underlined text . HTML Basic structureEvery piece of text that that you would like browsers to treat as HTML has to be enclosed within the <html> </html>; tags. Within the html tags, you have two sections one is called the header, where you put all the information telling the browser what your page is about. Another section is called the body . where you put everything that you want the browser to display. To demonstrate what I am talking about, every HTML page starts with <html> and ends with </html> as in: <html> What HTML can I use?HTML has a large range of tags, and they keep changing, some get faced out (deprecated as computer geeks would call it) and new ones are added. An elaborate list of HTML tags can be found at http://www.w3schools.com/tags/default.asp |
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