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WRITING
(OR AT LEAST LOOKING AT)
YOUR FIRST WEB PAGE IN HTML CODE
Dr. Richard L.
Bowman, Director
Academic Computing, Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, VA,
USA 22812
I. Discovering HTML Tags
In this tutorial you will learn some simple HTML
(Hyper Text Markup Language) code. An HTML document is
simply a text file with special codes for formatting.
These special text codes are referred to as
"tags." A tag consists of the necessary text
enclosed in <...>. There are a few constraints on
writing good HTML code in addition to knowing the various
tags.
- Current HTML standards require the tags
to be in lowercase only. However, most
current browsers will interpret the HTML code
correctly even if the tags are written in
uppercase or a mix of cases.
- Generally, each tag is followed at some
point by a closing tag to indicate when
that particular formatting feature should be
turned off. For example, to indicate bold text
the beginning tag is <b> or <strong>
followed by the text to be set in boldface font
and closed by the appropriate </b> or
</strong> tag.
- Each HTML page begins with <html>
followed by a <head> tag. The
<head> tag allows the author to give a
title to the web page and list other pertinent
information. This section finally ends with a
</head> tag.
- The body of the document gives all of the
information that is to be printed by a browser
interpreting that HTML code and begins with
<body>. The whole page ends with a
</body> and </html>. (Some browsers
will not require all of the ending tags. However,
in order to be as general as possible, it is a
good procedure to include all of the ending
tags.)
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