Introduction to HTML

Before we begin, I'd like to mention that I gratuitously ripped these pages off from my advisor, Dave Beazley.

An HTML document is nothing more than plaintext surrounded by a collection of "tags" that describe the documents layout and structure. A minimalistic HTML document looks like this:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Hello World</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>

Hello world.  This my HTML document.

</BODY>
</HTML>

Click here to see what it looks like.

Essential points:

The document is always enclosed within a <HTML> ... </HTML> pair.
The HEAD section is usually used to describe the document (title, style, etc...).
The TITLE section defines the page title that appears at the top of the browser window.
The BODY section contains all of the text you want to put on the page.

Introduction to HTML

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