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HTML

-Hyper Text Markup Language


• Hyper – all over the place
• Markup – marking up
• HTML is
- not a programming language, but rather a markup
language
- the language used to develop web pages.
- the language interpreted by the Browser.
- a text oriented language
- also called HTML documents.
• HTML tags
• Are instructions that are embedded directly into the text of the
document
• Begins with an open angle bracket (<) and ends with a close
angle bracket (>).
• Can be of two types:
• Paired Tags
• A tag is followed along with a companion tag
• Example:
• <B> ….</B> tag
• Here, <B> is often called the opening tag and </B> is called the closing
tag.
• The opening tag activates the effect and the closing tag turns the effect
off.
• Singular Tags
• Also known as standalone tag
• Does not have a companion tag
• Example:
• <BR> or <BR/>
• Tags and their Properties/ attributes
• Most of the HTML tags have their attributes.
• The attributes of every tag goes inside the opening tag .
• A tag can have any number of attributes separated by
space .
• Most of the attribute have a value.
• For example
• A tag with attributes will be written like.
<tag attribute1="value" attribute2="value">

• Commonly used HTML commands


• Structure of HTML program
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE> ……… </TITLE></HEAD> ;Head part
<BODY> ………
……….</BODY> ;Body part
</HTML>
• Head Section / Document Head
• Only information in <TITLE> and </TITLE> tags is displayed.
• Used only for inner workings of the documents.
• <HEAD><TITLE> ……… </TITLE></HEAD>
• Body Section / Document Body
• All contents are placed which are to be displayed
• <BODY> ……………….</BODY>

Attribute Value
BGCOLOR Changes default Background color

BACKGROUND Specifies Background image


TEXT Changes the body text color

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