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Introduction to HTML
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Basic HTML -- 10 Simple Tags Worth KnowingThis simple guide to HTML explains to the beginner how to create a quick and easy Web page. HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. An HTML page has markup tags that tell a Web browser how to display that page. A page often is divided into a header, body and footer. You can create a page in a text editor such as Notepad or SimpleText, as well as an advanced Web editor. Ten basic tags to get started are:
Here is a simple starter page: <html> <body> <table> </body> Note that each starting tag has a corresponding end tag but with a slash added. So the <html> tag that starts the page also has a </html> that ends the tag. Build the above sample in your word processor, save it to your desktop as sample.html and open it in your browser to see the result. |
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