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Basic Introduction to HTML

Fri 8th Mar

  

This tutorial introduces the very basics of coding in HTML. It's so basic but all web pages start this way so I am including it:

the code for a web page is split up into two sections; the head section is things that happen before anything is displayed on the screen and the body section is everything that is displayed on the screen.
Open up your favorite basic text editor such as Notepad(pc) or SimpleText(mac) or why not Gnote(Linux). NOw type this: 


<html>

   <head>

	<title>My Web Page</title>

   </head>



   <body>

      Hello World!

   </body>

</html>



and save it as test.htm

Open it up in your favoutrite browser and hey presto! Not very exciting I know but you have learned the basic structure of all web pages. One thing to notice is that in the body area the only text that is displayed on screen is all the text that isn't within spiky brackets <> . Also each opening tag has a closing tag i.e. <head>(opening tag) </head>(closing tag beacuse of the "/").

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by PD

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