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The document provides an introduction to HTML, detailing its purpose as the markup language for web pages and its historical development. It outlines the basic structure of an HTML page, including the head and body sections, as well as various text formatting tags and list types. Additionally, it covers attributes of the body tag and references a source for further reading.

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The document provides an introduction to HTML, detailing its purpose as the markup language for web pages and its historical development. It outlines the basic structure of an HTML page, including the head and body sections, as well as various text formatting tags and list types. Additionally, it covers attributes of the body tag and references a source for further reading.

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Introduction to HTML

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Outline
• Introduction to HTML
• Basic Structure of a HTML page
• Text formatting tags in HTML
• Lists in HTML

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1. Introduction to HTML…
• HTML – Hyper-Text Markup Language – The
Language of Web Pages on the World Wide
Web
• It defines the structure of webpages and
determines how data is displayed online
• HTML is a text formatting language
• Is a set of special instructions that can be
added in the text to add formatting and
linking information
• Is directly interpreted by the browser
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1. Introduction to HTML…
• Hypertext:
– Allows for non-linear linking to other documents
• Markup Language:
– Content is “marked up” or tagged to tell the
browser how to display it
• HTML standards are developed under the
authority of the World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C), headed by Tim Lee
– http://www.w3c.org
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1. Introduction to HTML…
• HTML was created in 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee at
CERN in Switzerland
• It was designed to allow scientists to display and
share their research
• 1995- HTML 2
• lots of browsers had added their own bits to HTML
• Dan Connolly and colleagues collected all the
HTML tags that were widely used and collated
them into a draft document
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1. Introduction to HTML…
• 1997- HTML 3.2
• It was the first version developed and standardized
exclusively by the W3C
• HTML 3.2 included the support for applets, text flow
around images, subscripts and superscripts etc
• 1999 – HTML 4.1
• extends HTML with mechanisms for style sheets,
scripting, frames etc.
• HTML5

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1. Introduction to HTML…
• HTML Tags:
• Tags are instruction that are directly embedded
into the text of the document
• Is a signal to a browser to do something before
just throwing text on the screen
• Begin with open angle bracket < and ends with
close angle bracket >
– For example <HTML>
• Paired Tags : <HTML> </HTML>
• Singular Tags: <BR>
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1. Introduction to HTML…
• HTML is not case-sensitive
• multiple spaces will appear as a single space
• Blank and new lines are ignored
• <!-- comments -- >
• HTML files have .html extension

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2. Structure of HTML Page
• The entire web page is enclosed within <HTML> and
</HTML>
• Within these tags two distinct sections are created head
and body
• Head: <HEAD>
<TITLE> …… </TITLE>
</HEAD>

. Body: indicate the start and end of main body of textual


information
<BODY>
</BODY>
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2. Structure of HTML Page…
• First HTML page:

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3. The BODY Tag
Attributes:
• BGCOLOR: Change the background color
• BACKGROUND: Place an image at background
• TEXT: Change the color of the body text
Example:
• <BODY BGCOLOR=123345 TEXT=Red>
• <BODY BACKGROUND=“img.jpg” TEXT=Red>

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4. Formatting text

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Formatting Text…...

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4. Formatting text…
• <P>….. </p>: starts a new paragraph
• Align (left, right, center and justify)
• <BR>: gives an one line break
• <H1> ….. </H1>: heading
• <HR>: draws horizontal line
• ALIGN (LEFT,CENTER,RIGHT)
• SIZE=2
• WIDTH=100%
• color
• Text Styles:
• <B> …. </B> , <I> …. </I>, <U> …. </U>
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4. Formatting text…
• <CENTER>….</CENTER>
• <FONT>……</FONT>
– FONTFACE: Sets the specified font name
– SIZE: Size of the text (between 1 and 7)
– COLOR: Set the color of the text
• Example:
– <FONT FONTFACE=“COMIC SANS MS” SIZE=6 COLOR=RED>
Welcome</FONT>

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5. Lists in HTML
• Un-ordered Lists:
– Starting Tag <UL>, Ending Tag </UL>
– List Items <LI>
– Type (FILLROUND, SQUARE)
• Ordered Lists:
– Starting Tag <OL>, Ending Tag </OL>
– List Items <LI>
– Type (“1”, “A”, ‘”a”, ”I”, ”i”)
– Start (Alerts the numbering Sequence)
– Value (Changes the number sequence in the middle of
an ordered list)
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5. Lists in HTML…
• Definition Lists:
– Starting Tag<DL>
– Ending Tag </DL>
– Definition Term <DT>
– Definition Description <DD>

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Summary
• What is HTML?
• Basic Structure of HTML page
• Body tag attributes
• Text formatting tags
• Lists

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References
• Chapter 1, Beginning HTML, XHTML,CSS,
and JavaScript, by Jon Duckett, Wiley
Publishing; 2009, ISBN: 978-0-470-
54070-1.

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