Hyper Text Markup Language

2009-08-12T22:38:33Z

Rbry027:

Hyper Text Markup Language, also known as HTML, is the mark up language used to create web pages. The mark up language of HTML consists of "codes" or "tags". Tags are normally part of a pair, the first tag is the 'opening' tag, whilst the second tag is the 'closing' tag.
For example, if you wished to underline a heading in your webpage, you would use the tag to start underlining the text, and then at the end to stop underlining the text. Although it is not a necessity to close your tags, it makes your coding for your web page a lot tidier. Sometimes, if you do not close your tags, you may end up with unwanted formatting in your webpage.

Here are some basic codes which are generally used:

<html> </html> This code defines the entire webpage of body. The opening tag is usually placed at the very beginning, before any other html coding, whilst the ending tag is placed at the very end.
 <body> </body> This tag is for the main body of html in your webpage.
 This tag allows you to have a paragraph in your text.
 Allows you to make your font bold, such as this.
 Similar to the bold tag, however, instead this changes your font to italics.

It is also necessary to include Document Type Definition and Encoding standards to tell the browser what language and encoding system was used to store the page.

In the head of every HTML page you should copy and paste the text:

<?xmlversion="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC

"-//W3C//DTDXHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

User:Rbry027

2009-08-12T22:26:23Z

Rbry027:

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