What is HTML? Page 1
how to start
Let�s start with this statement. You don�t need any fancy software to do this. If you are running a windows
based machine all you need is notepad, this program in automatically installed by Windows and a Web Browser. If
you are running a Macintosh than all you need are Simple Text that is also automatically installed by the operating
system and also a Web Browser. It is also recommended that when you are scripting a page you view the page on
multiple browsers. That is so you can see the difference between the browsers. Because remember there is more than one browsers.
definition
The best and easiest explanation is from the O�Reilly Book series. The book is titled HTML & XHTML: The
Definitive Guide. HTML is a document-layout and hyperlink-specification language. It defines the syntax and
placement of special, embedded directions that aren�t displayed by the browser, but tell it how to display the
contents of the document, including text, images, and other support media. The language also tells you how to make
a document through special hypertext links, which connect your document with other documents�on either your computer
or someone else�s, as well as with other Internet resources, like FTP.
writing a basic html page
Writing a basic html page is not very hard all it takes is som basic tags (they are explained in this section or
in the basict tags section).
<html>
<head>
<title> Basic Page Setup </title>
</head>
<body>
Welcome to the World Wide Web
</body>
</html>
And this is what is would like after scripting that code.
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Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 |
Netscape Navigator 6 |
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