HTML
What is a mark-up language?
A mark-up language is a collection of elements that are used to indicate the structure and format of a document. Marked-up documents are interpreted by computer software (usually to display or print their contents). Documents can easily be exchanged between computer systems that have software that can interpret the mark-up language used.What is HTML?
- HTML = HyperText Mark-up Language
- Universal, non-proprietary, structured, text mark-up language
- Used to publish documents on the World Wide Web
- Used to define the structure of documents and links between documents
The Mark-up Language takes the form of Tags, which typically occur in begin-end pairs. These pairs are in the form.
<tag> ... </tag>, or <TAG> ... </TAG>,this signifies the beginning and end of instruction.
In order to construct a Web page you need to use an HTML editor. This can be a simple text editor, such as Notepad which comes free with Windows software or it can be any word processor package where you can save plain text files.
The HTML document Structure
The basic structure of a HTML document is as follows:<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
With the previously mentioned beginning and end tag pairs, <tag> ... </tag>, being nested inside each other.
Firstly the <html> and </html> declares that everything between is a HTML document.
The <head> and </head> tags are used to declare important information about the document which is not necessarily visible to the human viewer.
Finally the <body> and </body> tags are used to contain the main document content. In other words the information which will be visible in the Browser Window.
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