HTML is the language that you will need to learn to begin programming a web page. It is made up of tags that tell the browser that your visitor uses to view your pages, how to display the page. This is accomplished with tags that are not visible when viewed on the Internet. They are all placed between a < and a >.
I will try to break down the basic tags, and show their uses, and how to change the attributes that go with them. All most all of the tags have an opening tag and a closing tag. They are like a light that needs to be to be turned on when you want them to work and off when you don't.
The way you show that the tag is a closing tag is to place a slash in the tag, like this: /
The first tag I will talk about is the very first tag that you will need to have on your page; the HTML tag. This tells the browser that it is viewing a page that will have HTML tags in it, as opposed to the text page that will just have line brakes and tab markers.
This tag is made like this:
<HTML>
and closed like this:
</HTML>
This is placed at the very end of the page, after all the other tags are closed.
The next tag you will see is the <HEAD> tag that tells the browser this is where information about the page is located that will not be seen when viewed.
Tags that go in here are the META tags that allow web pages to be located by the robots that index the Internet sites for search engines, like Lycos, Web Crawler, Alta Vista and Excite. This also has a closing tag: </HEAD>
The next tag you will need to know is the <BODY> tag it is where you can tell the browser that you wish to have a background, or a background color of you choice, as well as the color of the text, links, visited links, and active links.
The BODY does this by using the attributes:
- BACKGROUND="value"
used to add a background image, a jpg or gif. - BGCOLOR="value"
used to set the background color. - TEXT="value"
used to set the color of the text. - LINK="value"
used to set the color of the links. - VLINK="value"
used to set the color of the visited links. - ALINK="value"
used to set the color of the active link.
A BODY tag without a background image will be like this
click to see how this changes the page
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFD6" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#007900">
for a BODY tag with a background image will be written like this:
<BODY BACKGROUND="./image/back.gif" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#007900">
Every thing else that is seen on the web is between these tags.
</BODY>Followed now by the closing
</HTML>
The next Step is to learn the Text tags.
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