HTML file format  Lesson Objective: Understanding HTML and how it is used to create web pages.  Learning Outcome:  Create a HTML page by interpreting tags Keywords: HTML, world wide web, hyperlink, meta-tags, CCS (cascading Style Sheets)

What is HTML  Hyper Text Markup Language  Invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee as a way of easily sharing information over the internet. HTML uses Hyperlinks.  The development of HTML led to the creation of the World Wide Web

An example of HTML code… These are tags. Anything written between the signs are not shown on the web page. The tags tell the browser how to display the web page. Each tag here has an opening and closing tag. The closing tag has a / character at the beginning. This is the opening html tag … … and this is the closing html tag … Read the / character as ‘end’. Q. Where is the closing tag for this one? A. Here it is!

Basic HTML tags … Head (to go at the top of the page) Body – main part of the web page Heading level 1 Paragraph

More HTML tags Make the text bold Underline the text Make the text italics

Inserting pictures, hyperlinks: Creates a hyperlink Adds an image

Decoding HTML tags

Do you get the jokes?

Why use HTML?  It is only text and therefore it can be written on a simple word processor  It is universally used by all browsers and it is open source

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