HTML Tutorials - Introduction To HTML
What Is HTML?
The acronyn HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language, html is used for creating websites on the Internet.
A Html file is a plain text file that contains tags that tell your browser to display the page in a certain way.
These tags allow us to add images, text, sounds and animations to our pages; we can create these pages with simple text editors like notepad or a simple word processor like word.
Commonly used phrases in HTML ?
- Tags - Used to specify ("mark-up") regions of HTML documents for the web browser to interpret.
- Attribute - Used to change the value of the HTML element.
- Element - A element tag has an opening and closing <html> and a closing </html>.
Naming your HTML Document
All html documents must end with the .html or .htm extension this tell your browser that your document is of type html, its kind of similar to microsoft word documents in that they must have the suffix .doc to be able to open them in microsoft word.
The first thing you should do is give your document a name and then add a suffix to it. For example index.htm or index.html.
If using Wordpad or Notepad ensure the Save As Type is set to All Files, Otherwise your document will be saved as a text file i.e. index.htm.txt
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