Basic html
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HTML is the standard markup language used to create web pages. It uses tags, which are keywords surrounded by angle brackets, to format text and multimedia content. Common tags include <html> <head> and <body>. Web browsers read HTML files and display them, ignoring the tags but using them to determine how to display the content. HTML pages can be created with a basic text editor or a professional HTML editor.
Basic html
- 1. BASIC HTML
- 2. HTML is the standard markup language for creating Web pages. HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. HTML elements (Tags) are the building blocks of HTML pages. It displays wide variety of types of information. It contains simple text and/or multimedia containing sound, images, java Applets etc. Web browsers (Chrome, IE, Firefox and Safari) read HTML documents and display them. The browser does not display the HTML tags, but uses them to determine how to display the document. .html is the extension of HTML documents. Web pages can be created and modified by using simple text editor like Notepad or by using professional HTML editors like Dreamweaver.
- 3. HTML is a markup language and makes use of various tags to format the content. These tags are enclosed within angle braces <Tag Name>.For example <html> has its closing tag </html> and <body> tag has its closing tag </body> tag etc.
- 4. HTML tags are keywords (tag names) surrounded by angle brackets like <html>. HTML tags normally come in pairs like <b> and <//b>. The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag. The end tag is written like the start tag, with a forward slash before the tag name <tagname>content</tagname> The following points should be noted about HTML Tags Tags are not case sensitive. For Example <HEAD><head><Head> are equal Styles must be switched off by end tag. Some characters have to be replaced in the text by escape sequences. For Ex.> for > White spaces, tabs and new lines are ignored by the browser. If browser does not understand the tag it will usually ignore it. HTML Elements or HTML Tags