Basic HTML
The next question is what the pages that are being sent across the world by Web servers actually look like. For example, do they look like Microsoft Word documents (whatever that means)? Each page on the WWW is actually just a bunch of text with HyperText Markup Language (HTML) tags in it to tell the browser what to do. For example, the text in figure 2 is displayed as shown in figure 3.
This is <b>bold</b><br>
There is a space here:<p>
<a href="index.html">This
is a link</a> to the
What is the Web page,
index.html.This is bold
There is a space here:This is a link to the What is
the Web page, index.html.Figure 2: HTML Markup Figure 3: Markup Displayed An HTML tag is anything between angle brackets: e.g., <head> or <b>. The tags <b> and </b>, for example, tell the browser to display any text between them in bold face.
Note that to get line breaks or spaces we have to put in a line break <br> or paragraph <p> tag.
There are "two" types of HTML Markup: container tags, like the bold tag <b>bold</b>, that tell the browser what to do with a bunch of text, and non-container tags like the paragraph tag <p> that are single entities in a document. Container tags always have a closing tag like </b> to tell where to stop changing the characteristics of the text.
- Important Point:
Web documents made up of plain old ordinary text, "Marked-Up" with HTML tags.
- Important Point:
HTML tags enclosing text have closing </tagname> tags.
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HTML/WWW Wkshop: Basic HTML
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