WS 2.1 - Web Unit 2 - Lessons 2.1-2.2 - Guided Notes
WS 2.1 - Web Unit 2 - Lessons 2.1-2.2 - Guided Notes
01 Introduction To Html
• Question: How are web pages made??
• HTMLis the language for building web pages!
• Why HTML?
• HTML lets us build our own web pages
• Web pages allow us to easily share our ideas and creations with the
world!
• Every web page on the internet is built with HTML ANY web browser on
ANY device
• What is HTML
• Hyper Text Markup Language
• Hypertext - text displayed on a computer that has links to other
hypertext documents (hyperlinks)
• Markup Language - lets you annotate text to define how it should be
displayed
• HTML tags
• HTML tags mark up the text of a document in order to tell the browser
how the text should be displayed
• HTML is just normal text + HTML tags
• Enclosed in angle brackets: <h1>
• Not displayed on the resulting web page
• Inform the browser about how certain text should be formatted Our First
HTML Tag: <h1>
• Tags start and end with angle brackets
• The name of the tag goes in between the angle brackets
<h1> Hello! </h1> Hello!
Open tag Content affected by the Close tag Output
tag Note the slash on the closing tag