Basic HTML

Featuring...
* What an HTML File is
* What tags have to be in a file
* The basic tags

What Is An HTML File?

An HTML file is the document that the browser gets from the HTTP server. It is an ASCII (plain text) file with tags which tell the WWW browser what to display. A tag generally has an opening tag and a corresponding closing tag, which mark the text between them.
Example of tagged text:

The text
This text
is <strong>bold</strong> and this is in <em>italics</em>.

Appears in the browser as
This text is bold and this is in italics.
(Notice that the browser doesn't pay attention to line breaks in the HTML document, like the one after the word "text"). In this example, the opening tags are <strong> and <em>, and the corresponding closing tags are </strong> and </em>. (em stands for emphasis.)

What tags have to be in a file?

To conform to HTML standards, any HTML file should have the format

<html>
<head>
<title>The title of the document goes here</title>
</head>

<body>
<h1>This is the first header in the document</h1>

All of the text of the document goes here

You should say how recently the document was updated:
last modified on 13 April 1996
<address>
The title of the document goes here too
You should also say who you are:
page maintained by glarose@NebrWesleyan.edu
</address>
</body>
</html>

Basic HTML tags

"The" list of basic HTML tags

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