| HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) is simply the standard language for
formatting static content in a web browser. In other words, with HTML you tell
the browser what to display and how to display it. The word "static" in my description
is important to remember. With standard HTML alone, you cannot create pages with
moving (or dynamic) content. That requires a scripting language like Javascript.
HTML is a set of tags. Each tag is enclosed in <> symbols.
Most tags are "block-level" tags, meaning there is a start tag to begin
a format and an end tag to stop it. End tags have a "/"
before the tag. (for example: </h1>) The tags are not case-sensitive.
For instance, suppose I want to make some words bold...
Normal <b>Bold</b> Normal
Looks like this...
Normal Bold Normal
Notice when I wanted the words to be bold I used the start bold tag,<B>, to begin the bold format.
When I wanted the words to stop being bold, I used the end bold tag,</B>, to stop the bold format.
HTML files have extension .html or .htm
If you want to know more about HTML and it's history, visit
The World Wide Web Consortium.
The W3C, as it is commonly called writes the HTML standards.
Remember, HTML is best learned by practicing it. So experiment with the tags to
see what they do.
Now let's continue on to learning the basic layout of an html document.
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