WS Course Intro to HTML

Intro To HTML

Hyper Text Markup Language is A bunch of Tags within a normal text document.

There are usually two parts to a tag an opening tag and a closing tag
<html> this is the tag that starts an Html document
</html> this is the tag that ends an html document
<header> Starting of the header
</header> End of the header
The header contains the Title: <title>This is the title of the document </title>
it also can contain Meta tags and Java Scripts
<body> This is the beginning of the page body
</body> This is the end of the page body
Everything that shows up on the page is in the body
The body tag also takes parameters such as bgcolor - background color
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Html documents are normally save with the .htm or .html extension

The HTML of each web page you see on your browser can be seen by going to the view menu and clicking Source (Page Source on Netscape)

Here is a simple web page saved as hello.html

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