HTML

HTML

1. Definition

   • Hypertext Markup Language: This is the official markup language for the World Wide Web that tells browsers how to display web pages.

2. How to create HTML

   • You could create HTML documents using text-editor programs such as Notepad. Save the HTML document with .htm or .html file. HTML IS NOT A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE! It is made of instructions or tags, which tell the web browser how to display information.

3. Tags

   • Made up of opening and closing angle bracket.
   • <html>
     • The browser uses this to identify the document is a HTML document.
   • Closing Tags
     • The symbol used to identify the opening tag from the closing tag is the forward slash.&nbsp; Ex:
   • Head Tag
     • This refers to descriptive information about the webpage. This contains metadata, which is data about the HTML document. This doesn't display on the browser except the title tag. The search engines use metadata to find websites.
     • <title>
       • This tag refers to the section that indicates the title of the HTML document.
   • <body>
     • This tag refers to the bulk of the page.&nbsp;
     • <p>
       • This is the tag used for paragraph text.
     • <em>
       • This tag is used for emphasizing text displayed as italics.
     • <br>
       • This tag makes a line break in the html document. It does not have a closing tag.
     • <center>
       • Centers text and images
     • <ol>...</ol>
       • Ordered list (numbered items)
     • <ul>...</ul>
       • Unordered list displayed as bullet points.
     • <li>
       • This is a list item
     • <strong>
       • This tag displays as bold.
     • <hr>
       • This tag displays a horizontal line.
     • <a>
       • This is an anchor tag used to display links between text and graphics.
     • <font>
       • Allows you to change the size, color, or style of the text.
     • <marquee>
       • This displays a scrolling line of text.
     • <h1>, <h2>, <h3>
       • These tags are displayed using a larger size of the default font. There are six levels of heading tags, each using a smaller font size. As the heading number increases by 1, the font gets smaller.