Are you new to HTML ? OK we will try to learn this language of internet here. HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. You may be knowing other computer languages like C, C++, Basic, Foxpro etc and now one more language in this line is HTML. But there is a difference here, like other languages HTML is not a scripting language or a compiled code for the computers to execute. HTML is mostly consist of tags which we will use in our text document for the web browser to understand. Let us discuss one simple example. We want some part of the following line to be written in bold letters and some part in Italic letters.
HTML is the language of the internet.
In your word processor software you can easily do this but please note that there has to be a standard way of doing this which can be easily understood by browser operating at different platforms. So one universal way of formatting the text is required here for easy understanding of browsers operating on across the platforms. So in HTML we will write the above line in this way.
HTML is the <b>language</b> of the <i>internet</i>
Here once this text is opened by the user browser it can understand the format and it display the text by taking care of the tags used. So the tags plays important role in formatting the text in an html document. The user browser interprets the tags and display in required format.
View Source of the html page
As the browsers display the text it gives an option to the user to view the source of the page or the text with tags. This feature is available by visiting View > Source at top menu in internet explorer and View > Page Source in Firefox browser. This way we can see the html formatted text of any site.
Let us try for your first html page now.
Open your note pad or any other text editor. Copy and paste the following code inside it.
<html>
<head>
<title>(Type a title for your page here)</title>
<META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT=" ">
<META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT=" ">
</head>
<body >
Hello <br>
Welcome to plus2net.com
</body>
</html>
Save this as test.htm. In Win Note pad take care that you enter the file name with quotes like this “test.htm”. Open this file in your browser ( or just double click the file in your file explorer ) .
You will see a message like this
Hello
Welcome to plus2net.com
Note the line break between Hello and Welcome to plus2net.com. We have used one line break tag
and browser has placed a line break after reading this line break tag. Now from the browser menu visit View > Source . You can see your original source code there.
Try to develop more such pages by using different tags.
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Introduction to HTML
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