2. HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
HTML is not a programming language, it is a markup language
A markup language is a set of markup tags
HTML uses markup tags to describe web pages
HTML documents are also called web pages
3. Web Pages and Web Servers
student.cofc.ed
u web server
A user in
Sydney views
your website
4. General Structure of an HTML
File
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of page</title>
</head>
<body>
This is my first homepage.
<b>This text is bold</b>
</body>
</html>
5. Tags Of
HTML
Container Empty
Tag Tag
Opening Closing
Tag Tag
HTML tags normally come in pairs like <b> and </b>
Start and end tags are also called opening tags and closing tags
6. Container Tag
we looked at how most tags require an opening and a closing command.
These are called container tags.
Cotainer Tag Structure:
<COMMAND property="value">"contained object</COMMAND>.
Eg.
