Introduction into the world of HTML

**poblo10** · 03-26-2010, 03:23 AM

1. Introduction into the world of HTML

So im going to be making step by step tutorials for learning HTML, its going to start off very basic then move to more advnaced so i will number each tutorial so you can follow along. Then after im done with HTML i will move on to teaching PHP.

Now first off what is HTML?
HTML stands for "Hyper Text Markup Language", the common misconception is that some people think HTML is a programming language but they would be wrong. Its considered a "Markup Language"

HTML Tags
So HTML tags can be called Markup Tags but its just easier to flow with when you call them HTML Tags.
HTML Tags are keywords surrounded by brackets such as <>
And each tag has a starting and ending tag
EX

Code:

<b>In html this would show up as bold text</b>
<u>This text would be underlined</u>
<i>This text would be italic>/i>

All closing tags have / before the keyword
EX

Code:

<keyword></keyword>

Now starting your web page.
All HTML pages (if made correctly) will have the <html> at the top of the source before any other code, and </html> at the end after all the code.
EX

Code:

<html>
The websites source and other tags/scripts go here
</html>

Now the keyword <html> describes web page. And i will go into detail in a later tutorial on what you would add after that tag. And usaly following <html> you will see <body> which describes the visible content of the website.
Now adding what we've learned so far into a starting page.

Code:

<html>
<body>
<b>This is the start of my website</b><br />
<u>Stay tuned for more :)</u>
</body>
</html>

After note: <br /> Stands for break in the page

Enjoy

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**Rocketeer** · 01-06-2011, 05:06 AM

Not a bad little starter guide. I personally started learning HTML by looking at other websites HTML source, and the website lissaexplains.com .. very kid friendly.