Dec
27
2010

Introduction to HTML

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What does HTML stand for, well HTML stands for Hyper Text Mark Up Language.
HTML is not a Programming Language but rather a language that defines structured data.
HTML has a standard defined by the World Wide Web Consortium or W3C for short.
A web browser is a tool made for viewing a web page.HTML tells the browser what to show the user, so when viewing a page, you actually are viewing HTML but the browser translate it to something you would understand like bold texts, paragraphs, different fonts, images and so on.
For a browser to understand what you want him to do, you must use HTML tags.
There are 2 type of tags, the one that we enclose something in e.g. <b>For Bolded Text</b> and where we don’t enclose anything e.g. <img src=”image_source” />.
Comments in HTML is a special type of tag, that tells the web browser just o ignore it, but it’s still being send to the web browser, just not visualized. Comments are declared this way:
<!—Commented Code -->
Let me show an example of a simple HTML page.
<html> <!—- this tells the web browser that we will be using HTML --> <head>  <title> Your web page title</title>  </head>  <body>  Just a simple message </body>  </html>

Now we have to save it with the .html extension, if you are running on an old system like DOS/FAT you may use the .htm extension. Now open it up in your web browser window, and see the results.
Congrats, you made your first HTMLpage!