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HTML Codes Miss B
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HTML CodesMiss B
What is HTML?
HTML stands for hypertext markup language. What does that mean? Hyper is a Greek word that can mean things like super or beyond. So, hypertext is beyond text or super text, or, to put it in more modern terms, hypertext is text on steroids.
So basically…HTML is the language used to make webpages. If you want to learn how to make webpages, you’ll have to learn HTML.
HTML Tags
HTML uses HTML tags or special keywords that give instructions to web browsers on how to display a page.
All HTML tags are enclosed in the < and the > symbols. These symbols may be called the lesser-than and greater-than symbols; or, you may see them referred to as angle brackets.
Usually, HTML tags are used in pairs—an opening tag and a closing tag. Closing tags have a right slash in them.
Let’s Get Started
The first thing you need to do is open up a text
editing application such as Notepad or TextEdit.
The Basics
The next few slides are going to discuss the basic HTML tags that you need to know.
The HTML Tag (<html></html>)
The HTML tag the most essential of the basic HTML codes. You cannot even have a webpage
without the HTML tag: it defines the webpage itself. Everything in
the webpage must be placed between the opening HTML tag
and the closing HTML tag.
The HEAD Tag (<head></head>)
The HEAD tag defines the head section of an HTML document. The
HEAD section is where we put information that relates to the
page but that we don’t want to be displayed in the page itself. Some things commonly put in the HEAD
section are page titles.
The TITLE Tag (<title></title>)
The TITLE tag is always placed within the HEAD tags and contains
the title of the page. The page’s title is usually displayed in the
browser window’s title bar.
The BODY Tag (<body></body>)
The BODY tag defines the body section of the page, which is the part that the browser will
display.
The HEADING Tags (<h1></h1>,
<h2></h2>, etc.)The heading tags are used
to define headings for the text—they work a lot like newspaper headings.
By default, they also cause a break in the text before and after them.
That is to say, the heading will be on a line
all by itself. Also, the bigger the number the smaller the heading.
The P (Paragraph) Tag (<p></p>)
The paragraph tag, or P tag, simply defines a paragraph. Each
paragraph of your text should be contained within a set of
paragraph tags.
The UL (Unordered List) Tag (<ul></ul>)
In general, the unordered list is used to make bulleted lists such as that seen below.
Point 1
Point 2
Point 3
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You can change the way the text of your webpage looks by using these codes.
Well, Now You Know Some Basic HTML
CodesWell, there you go. You are now
familiar with a handful of some of the more common or basic HTML codes or tags.
Let’s Practice
Now we can use this site to help us create an HTML page.
CLICK HERE
