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What is HTML??
HTML is the basic code upon which web pages are created. There
are other advanced languages used to create web pages but we'll
concentrate on HTML in this tutorial.
HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. HTML is an interpreted
language. An interpreted language is one that does not need to be
compiled in order to be run. The program viewing the page does the
"running" of the code. You can create your web pages in
any basic text editor and the browser does the rest.
Your code will consist of "tags". Tags are what tells
the web browser to do things. A tag is nothing more than the lesser-than
sign and the greater-than sign. The tag that starts the page looks
like <html>. The browser knows that anything in-between these
tags needs to be interpreted and anything else is just text. Most
tags have beginning and ending tags to show where the code will
be applied. Everything between the tags get marked up by the tag.
An example of a beginning and ending tag would be, <font color="blue">HI</font>.
Everything between the two font tags would be changed to the color
blue. Notice the ending tag has a forward slash in front of the
word. This has to be there on the ending tag and tells the browser
that this is an ending tag and not a beginning tag. There are a
few tags that have to be in a page before the page will work. Let's
go on and create our first page and learn these necessary tags.
Now lets go to Step
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