HTML Authoring

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HTML Basics

Writing Tools

Use any text editor.
Save as ascii text format.
Look at files in browser
[ File / Open ]
Do NOT need connection or server to test.

Embedded Tags

Directions bracketed inside a pair of tags:

< and > symbols.

Information inside is used to decide how to display or treat the contents of

document.

<i>Hello</i> = Hello

Start / End tags–Most but not all!

Parts of the HTML Document

Head

Contains information about the document.

Body

Contents to be displayed in the browser window.

HTML Basics - Head

<html>

<head>

<title> My First HTML document</title>

</head>

HTML Basics - Body

<body>

<h2> My first HTML document!</h2>

Hello, <i> World Wide Web! </i>

<p>Text of paragraph.</p>

</body>

</html>

Saving and Viewing

Save as filename.html
Save as text!
Netscape–Open File

Basic Page Structure

<html>

<head>

<title> My First HTML document</title>

</head>

<body>

<h2> My first HTML document!</h2>

Hello, <i> World Wide Web! </i>

<p>Text of paragraph.</p>

</body>

</html>

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