Wednesday 18 May 2011

What is HTML HTML Tags Example HTML Script Explanation




What is HTML?
*HTML is a language for describing web pages.
*HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language.
 *HTML is not a programming language, it is a markup language.
* A markup language is a set of markup tags.
*HTML uses markup tags to describe web pages

HTML Tags
*HTML markup tags are usually called HTML tags.
*HTML tags are keywords surrounded by angle brackets like <html>.
*HTML tags normally come in pairs like <b> and </b>.
*The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag.
*Start and end tags are also called opening tags and closing tags.
* HTML Documents = Web Pages.

HTML is the bricks and mortar of the WWW. Without HTML the World Wide Web could not have become as important as it is today. HTML is a document formatting language common the all computers on the WWW. html permits cross platform communication between Macs, Apples, SUNs, PCs and others to view a document in a similar way. Every webpage that you visit uses HTML in some way, you can view the HTML code behind a website in Internet Explorer by selecting: View > Source.

*HTML documents describe web pages.
*HTML documents contain HTML tags and plain text.
*HTML documents are also called web pages.
The purpose of a web browser (like Internet Explorer or Firefox) is to read HTML documents and display them as web pages. The browser does not display the HTML tags, but uses the tags to interpret the content of the page:

<html>
<body>
<h1>My First Heading</h1>
<p>My first paragraph.</p>
</body>
</html>
Save this script in notepad as danphp.html
Example Explained
  • The text between <html> and </html> describes the web page.
  • The text between <body> and </body> is the visible page content.
  • The text between <h1> and </h1> is displayed as a heading.
  • The text between <p> and </p> is displayed as a paragraph.

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