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HTML Basics Notes: HTML: Hyper Text Markup Language

The document provides an overview of HTML basics, including that HTML is a markup language used to design web pages and structure information on the World Wide Web. Web pages are generally single HTML documents that can contain text, graphics, audio, video, and links. The document outlines key HTML tags like <html>, <head>, <body>, <p>, and <br> and their purposes, as well as attributes that provide additional information about tags. It also discusses the structure of an HTML document and editors used to create webpages.

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HTML Basics Notes: HTML: Hyper Text Markup Language

The document provides an overview of HTML basics, including that HTML is a markup language used to design web pages and structure information on the World Wide Web. Web pages are generally single HTML documents that can contain text, graphics, audio, video, and links. The document outlines key HTML tags like <html>, <head>, <body>, <p>, and <br> and their purposes, as well as attributes that provide additional information about tags. It also discusses the structure of an HTML document and editors used to create webpages.

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HTML basics notes

Internet plays an integral part of our lives. The World Wide Web presents loads of information in
pages called web pages. Web pages are generally a single HTML document. It may be lengthy. It
contains graphics, text, audio, video and links. Tim berners lee was the founder of HTML.

HTML: Hyper text markup language

Hyper text- link to another text

Web pages and website are linked so that you can browse with ease.

Markup language - style of writing and presenting info within text doc. It is used to design web
pages.

Features of HTML

 Platform- independent language


 No case- sensitive language
 Easy syntax and simple- to – understand programs
 Attributes explain the value of tags.
 Flexibility to design web pages using multimedia elements
 Embedding audio or video is simple as inserting image
 Links to web pages for easy browsing
 When web pages are created they are shared with the world.

HTML Tags

 Code instructions referred to as source code.


 Markup text: most basic element for creating a webpage.
 Keywords enclosed in angular brackets < >
 Mark beginning or end of a program.
 1st tag is opening/ON tags the end tag is called closing/OFF tags
 Preceded with a “/” followed by < >
 Main content placed between opening and closing tags.

Attributes

 Keywords that provide additional info about the tags.


 Always written with start tag
 Appear as attribute name, followed by a”=” with attribute value
 Different attribute by same tag is defined with space.

Structure of HTML doc


HTML doc also known as HTML web page there are various components

<Html>

<Head>

<Title>________ </title>
<Body>

</body>

</html>

Is a container tag. Identifies doc type as HTML.


<html> Root element of all tags.
Contains info you do not want directly to be
<head> displayed on the web page. It contains title tag,
logo of the web page, tagline and metadata.
Is a container tag. Title is written between the tags.
<title> Title is displayed in the title bar of the webpage.
Defines document body which contains text,
<body> images links etc.

WYSIWYG editor

 Stands for what you see is what you get


 Allows you to create webpage without the use of HTML tags

Text editor

 Use HTML tags to create webpage.

Container Tags- have a beginning on an end tag to a program

Empty tags- Tags that only have an opening tag and no closing tag
HTML doc heading

 Used to display text slightly bigger and bolder than normal text
 Has 6 levels of headings
 1st heading is suggested as container tag
 ‘n’ refers to heading varying between 1 to 6

Body tag

 Is a container tag
 Consists of the content and layout of a web page
 Without additional formation the text will appear as a continuous paragraph
 Only breaks in text occur at the line wrap width of the browser and the spaces between
words.

Used to set color of the


bgcolour background.
Value is the rgb hexadecimal
code.
Used to set the image in the
background background of the document.
Used to set the color of the text
text in the document.
Used to set the four margins on a
Leftmargin,rightmargin,bottomargin web page or define the spacing
top margin between the border and text on
the web page. The space is
defined in pixels.
<Br> tag

 Used to insert line breaks


 It is an empty tag
 Does not have attributes

<p> tag

 Marks the beginning of a new paragraph in a web page


 Leaves a blank line after the paragraph
 It’s a container tag
 Align attributes aligns text left,right,centre by default its left aligned

<Hr> tag

 Used to insert a straight horizontal line across the web page


 By default the line appears to be shaded and the length is equal to the width of the browser

<Font> tag

 Used to change the size, color and typerface of the short segment of the text on a HTML page

<b>, <i>, <u> tags

<b> stands for bold. It makes the text bold

<i> stand for italic. It makes the text appear italicised

<u> stands for underline. It makes the text underlined

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