HTML
( 1 ) : What is HTML ?
HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language.
It is user for creating web pages.
( 2 ) : Where to type HTML ?
You can use any text editor to type html ; like
- Notepad
- Wordpad
- MS Word...
- Dream weaver etc
( 3 ) : How to save HTML files ?
You can save a HTML file in 2 type of extensions , like
- . htm (dot htm)
- . html (dot html)
( 4 ) : HTML editors .
- Dream Weaver
- MS Front Page etc
( 5 ) : Basic structure of HTML .
<html>
<head>
<title>.........................................</title>
</head>
<body> ....................................... </body>
</html>
( 6 ) : Detailed description of the structure of HTML .
- < > is known as TAGS. First we use <html> to open the HTML commands . Note that a slash ( / ) is used to close any commands . Here we use </html> to close the HTML commands .
- Next part is the <head> . In this section , we give title for the web page. To give title , we should give the same format as <title>.........................................</title> , and in the middle section of this , we can write a title. After that , close the head section by using slash as </head> .
- Next comes the body part . Whatever we want to write in the body part , we can write . All the contents of the web page comes here. And close this body part , after writing the contents , and close the section by </body> .
( 7 ) : We used in the HTML ,
- < > : TAGS
- Container Tag : They have both opening and closing tags.
- Stand alone (Empty ) tags : They have only one tag (opening tag only).
- Elements : They are the one which used with in container tags.
- Attributes : Which shows the character of the Elements.
( 8 ) : How to view the web page ?
You can use any web browser (Internet Explorer , Google Chrome etc) to view the created web page.
To do this ;
- Open any web browser
- Select File --> Open ( or press Ctrl and O )
- Click Browse .
- Select the saved file from it's location.
- Click OK.
Then we can see the created web page. If we select
View -->
Sourse from the web page , we can see the commands we used to create it.
( 9 ) : Some more things to remember :
There are other subdivisions for the alignment of paragraph , to draw tables.....etc.
We will study them in the following sections.
Now we are going to create a simple web page , using HTML.
Open note pad (wordpad or MS word) , then type the commands given with the title "
MY FIRST WEB PAGE" .
