Intro to HTML

 Hypertext markup language (HTML) is a way of telling web browsers how to display a page  You can type them by hand in a word processing program, or an icon-driven program will insert them for you  What You See is What You Get (WYSIWYG)

Intro to HTML  HTML Tags are the programming commands  Tags are enclosed in greater-than and less- than symbols that serve as brackets  Tags are enclosed in greater-than and less- than symbols that serve as brackets  Tags are normally typed in capital letters  Most commands have a beginning and ending tag (eg., and turn boldface on and turn it off)  All pages begin with and end with  All pages begin with and end with

Intro to HTML  All pages contain these elements:  Head – introductory information, meta tags (for advanced designers) keywords, and title  Title – short description that appears at the top of the browser window  Body – the main part of the page

Intro to HTML  To view the HTML file for any web page, use the “view source” command in your web browser  View the page source for the U of A Web site: