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Welcome To HTML

Hyper Text Markup Language

HTML or HyperText Markup Language is the language of the internet. But what is it?

HyperText

You can click on stuff....HypterText docuemnts link to gether to create a "web" of documents

Markup Language

Codes the display and structure of information

Basically, HTML is written instructions for a web browser, like Internet Explorer™. The instructions tell IE how to format a "page" of information.

How Does it Work?

HTML is broken down into elements, each "element" is defined by "tags."

Think of an HTML element like an section of a document. Many elements relate directly to things you would expect to find in a document, like a paragraph.

Look at this example:

<h1>This is a heading</h1>

<h2>This is a sub-heading</h2>

<p>This is a paragraph.</p>

<p>This is another paragraph.</p>

This example looks something like this:

See how it works?

Document Structure

Notice how the tags in the example above wrap around the text they format.

Think of tags as boxes which enclose certain kinds of information. You can have boxes within boxes, just like you can have a paragraph within a page.

The structure of a basic html document

Now You Try

Save the following image to disk.

Launch BBEdit Lite from the Apple Menu. Copy the following text into a new document. This will get us started with a quick HTML lesson.

You can link to this sample code here.