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HyperText Markup Language
Introduction to HTML HTML Tags
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1.Introduction to HTML A Web page is stored on a Web server, which makes the page available to users of the Web. To view a Web page, the user runs a Web browser, a software program that retrieves the page and displays it.
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1.Introduction to HTML Web pages are generally written in HTML
Hypertext Mark-up Language HTML is a method of marking-up text Designed to describe structure of a document Not designed to describe the way the document is displayed - this is up to the individual browser
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1.Introduction to HTML What is “marking up”? Why is marking up useful?
a description of the structure of a document Why is marking up useful? can make it easier to understand can make it more interesting to read Especially when you have a large quantity of text - it helps to highlight key sections (Imagine trying to read a novel if it had no paragraph breaks...)
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Notepad MS-Word Front Page Dream weaver
1.Introduction to HTML Tools for creating HTML documents Notepad MS-Word Front Page Dream weaver
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2.HTML tags An HTML document is a simple text file.
It contains text surrounded by elements used to mark up sections. These elements are called tags Tags are indicated by angled brackets <...> Tags generally come in pairs One tag to begin the mark up (opening tag), and one to end the mark up (closing tag begins with a forward slash </...>)
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<B> Introduction to HTML </B>
2.HTML tags General form of a HTML tag: <B> Introduction to HTML </B> Opening Tag Closing tag TEXT TO BE FORMATTED
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<html><head></html></head>
2.HTML tags Tags must be properly nested This means when you open a tag, all tags inside it must be closed before you can close the tag, e.g. <html><head></head></html> ...is properly nested but: <html><head></html></head> ...is not properly nested The html element has been closed off, but the head element is still open - not allowed!
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<html> ... </html>
2. HTML tags Required Tags: HTML Contains entire HTML document <html> ... </html> Everything in between the <html> and the </html> is HTML code The first tag that you will need to know is the tag which indicates the contents are in HTML
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2.HTML tags An HTML document consists of two parts A head A body
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Software Applications
2.HTML tags HEAD Contains title <title> Software Applications </title> The head of an HTML document is an unordered collection of information about the document It does not contain information to display in the document when rendered by a browser
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2.HTML tags BODY Contains all objects you wish to place on your web page
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2.HTML tags Web Page Structure <html> Starts HTML document
<head> document heading <title> This is the title </title> </head> Closes the heading <body> Starts the body body content goes here </body> Closes the body </html> Closes the HTML document HTML HEAD BODY TEXT CONTENT TEXT CONTENT <TAGS> LINK TAGS End of HTML
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2.HTML tags Most tags have attributes Tag <body>
has the following attributes (amongst others) bgcolor - sets the background colour
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2.HTML tags The heading tags <h1></h1>
Headings The heading tags <h1></h1> <h2></h2> ... <h6></h6> indicate a block as being a heading
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2.HTML tags Line Break The tag <br>
forces a carriage return in a document You would place a <br> tag each time you want to add a line break without starting a new paragraph This is an example of a tag that does not have a closing tag
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2. HTML tags The paragraph tag <p></p>
Paragraphs The paragraph tag <p></p> marks up a block as being a single paragraph
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2.HTML tags <html> Starts the HTML document
<head> Starts the document heading <title>This is the page title</title> </head> <body> starts the document body <h1> This is a heading1 tag</h1> <br> is a line break tag <p> is a paragraph tag followed by the end of paragraph </p> <b> This text is bold </b> </body> </html>
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