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Intro to HTML. Intro to HTML. Hypertext markup language (HTML) is a way of telling web browsers how to display a page You can type them by hand in a word processing program, or an icon-driven program will insert them for you What You See is What You Get (WYSIWYG). Intro to HTML.
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Intro to HTML • Hypertext markup language (HTML) is a way of telling web browsers how to display a page • You can type them by hand in a word processing program, or an icon-driven program will insert them for you • What You See is What You Get (WYSIWYG)
Intro to HTML • HTML Tags are the programming commands • Tags are enclosed in greater-than and less-than symbols that serve as brackets <HTML> • Tags are normally typed in capital letters • Most commands have a beginning and ending tag (eg., <B> and </B> turn boldface on and turn it off) • All pages begin with <HTML> and end with </HTML>
Intro to HTML • All pages contain these elements: • Head – introductory information, meta tags (for advanced designers) keywords, and title • Title – short description that appears at the top of the browser window • Body – the main part of the page
Intro to HTML • To view the HTML file for any web page, use the “view source” command in your web browser • View the page source for the U of A Web site: http://www.uark.edu