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Introduction to HTML
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Introduction
HTML = HyperText Markup Language
A markup language
Technology of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
HTML is a plain-text file that can be created using a text editor like Notepad.
When creating HTML files for the web, make sure you save them as .html or .htm.
Tags As a text document, your HTML in Notepad will
contain Tags, such as headers, titles, paragraphs, etc.
HTML tags consist of a left angle bracket (<), a name, and a right angle bracket (>)
For example: <title>
Tags must also close using slash( / ).
A starting and ending tag would be: <title> </title>
Types of Tags
Container Tag
Empty Tag
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Container Tag
Two types of tags: container and empty Container tags contain text between an
opening and a closing tag. Container tags are also known as non-
empty tags
Empty Tags
An empty tag does not use a closing tag
More Tags Any HTML document should contain certain
tags:-<html>-<title>-<body>-<paragraph>
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How to Create and View an HTML document?
1.Use an text editor such as notepad to write the document.
2.Save the file as filename.html.
3.Open Internet Explorer (or any browser) .
4.Click on File, Open File and select the filename.html .
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<html> <head> <title>Internet and WWW How to Program - Welcome</title> </head>
<body> <p>Welcome to XHTML!
</p> </body></html>
Example1: First HTML example: main.html
Theory Questions
Q1. What is the purpose of HTML language?
Ans :- HTML is a markup language for creating web documents.
Q2. Write the function of the following tags:
a)HTML :- The <html> tag tells the browser that this is an HTML document.
b)BODY :- The <body> tag defines the document's body.c)TITLE :- Define the title of a document.
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Theory QuestionsQ3. What is the difference between empty and container tags?Ans :-Container Tags
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Container Tags Empty Tags
• The tags which include an ‘on’ tag and the ‘off’ tag are called container tags.
• Example :- HTML, TITLE, BODY tags.
• In the empty tags there is no ‘off’ tag, these tags have only ‘on’ tag.
• Example :- BR, HR tags.
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