HTML consists of special codes which when embedded in text, adds formatting. The special characters, which separated HTML from ordinary text are the angular brackets [<>]. These brackets contain instructions known as TAGS that are mot case sensitive.
Browsers: A browser is also known as web client is a software program that is primarily designed for viewing the boundless information stored on the world wide web. It is one of the most important Internet software in use. The common browsers used to surf the internet are following:
1. Microsoft Internet Explorer
2. Netscape Communicator
Creating and saving HTML files :
The HTML files are recognized by the extension .html\htm. These files are created using any of editors {Notepad, Notetab, Dos editor} and Microsoft front page can be used to design and edit html files.
Example -
Open a mew file in the editor and type following tags.
< HTML>
<Head> My first page
</Head>
<Title> Test page </Title>
<body> <br>
</HTML>
HTML commands are called TAGS. They are used to control the content and appearance of the HTML document. The opening tag “<>” indicates the beginning of html commands. The closing tag “</>” indicates the end of html command.
<em><strong>Basic tags</strong></em>
<em>Tag </em> <em>Description</em>
<Html>…</Html> Beginning and closing of html documents
<Head>…</Head> Beginning and closing of html document header
<body>…</body> Beginning and closing of html document header
<Title> …</Title> Indicates title for the web page.
<em>Body Tag </em>
The body will contain the entire content of a web page. The content is enclosed within <body>…</body>
