| 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 an HTML extension like DHTML, and a
scripting language like Javascript.
HTML consists of 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 particular format and an end tag to stop it. End tags are designated by the "/"
symbol before the tag. (for example: </h1>) The tags are not case-sensitive.
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.
Now let's continue on to learning the basic layout of an html document.
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