Basics tags for HTML

The Global Open University
Nagaland
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Special guide for

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INTRODUCTION TO HTMLINTRODUCTION TO HTML

Contents
Getting Started..
What is HTML?
How to create and View an HTML document?
Basic HTML Document Format
The HTML Basic tags
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What the following term mean:
Web server: a system on the internet containg one or
more web site
Web site: a collection of one or more web pages
Web pages: single disk file with a single file name
Home pages: first page in website
Think about the followings before working
your Web pages.
Think about the sort of information(content) you want
to put on the Web.
Set the goals for the Web site.
Organize your content into main topics.
Come up with a general structure for pages and
topics. 4

What is HTML?
Telling the browser what to do, and what props to use.
A serises of tags that are integrated into a text
document.
Tags are ;
surrounded with angle brackets like this
 or .
Most tags come in pairs
exceptions: , , <li> tags …
The first tag turns the action on, and the second turns it
off.
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The second tag(off switch) starts with a forward slash.
For example , text 
can embedded, for instance, to do this:
<HEAD><TITLE> Your text </HEAD></TITLE> it won't work.
The correct order is <HEAD><TITLE> Your text </TITLE></HEAD>
not case sensitivity.
Many tags have attributes.
For example, centers the paragraph following it.
Some browsers don't support the some tags and some
attributes.
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Basic HTML Document Format
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<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>WENT'99</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
Went'99
</BODY>
</HTML>
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>WENT'99</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
Went'99
</BODY>
</HTML>
See what it
looks like:

How to Create and View an HTML document?
1.Use an text editor such as Editpad to write the
document.
2.Save the file as filename.html on a PC. This is called
the Document Source.
3.Open Netscape (or any browser) Off-Line
4.Switch to Netscape
5.Click on File, Open File and select the filename.html
document that you just created.
6.Your HTML page should now appear just like any
other Web page in Netscape.
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7.You may now switch back and forth between the
Source and the HTML Document
 switch to Notepad with the Document Source
 make changes
 save the document again
 switch back to Netscape
 click on RELOAD and view the new HTML Document
 switch to Notepad with the Document Source......
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 Tags in head
<HEAD>...</HEAD>-- contains information about the
document
 <TITLE>...</TITLE>-- puts text on the browser's title
bar.
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 Tags in Body
Let's talk Text
Heading: <H1> </H1>
Center:<Center> </Center>
Line Break , 
Phrase Markups: ,
Create a List
 Unordered list : <UL><li>
Ordered list: <OL><li>
Nested
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Add Images
Use <IMG SRC=imagefilename> tags
How to specify Relative pathnames
Attributes of IMG tag
-width,height
-Alt
-Align
-<Img src=my.gif width=50 height=50 align=right
alt=“My image”>
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Add some Link
Use <A href=filename|URL></a>tags
How to specify Relative pathnames
Kinds of URLs
-http://www.women.or.kr
- ftp://ftp.foo.com/home/foo
- gopher://gopher.myhost.com/
- news://news.nuri.net
- mailto:skrhee@women.or.kr
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How to make colors changes?
Hexadecimal number :
Color names : 
Changing the Background color
<BODY BGCOLOR=#19378a>
Changing Text color
<BODY BGCOLOR=#19378a TEXT=#ffffff LINK=#ffff66
VLINK=#66ffff>
Spot color
WENT'99
Image Background
<BODY BACKGROUND=bgimg.gif >
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The current HTML document is my.html and the current directory is Iam
C:- Iam -my.html
-your.html
Type this ; <A href=your.html>Your link </A>
C:- Iam -my.html
Child -your.html
Type this ; <A href=Child/your.html>Your link </A>
C:-  Iam -my.html
 Sister -your.html
Type this ; <A href=../Sister/your.html>Your link </A>
C:-  Mother -your.html
 Iam -my.html
Type this ; <A href=../your.html>Your link </A> Go to
Back
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How to specify Relative pathnames

How to specify Relative pathnames
The HTML document is my.html and the image file is dragonfly.gif
C:-  Iam -my.html Type this ;☞ <IMG SRC=dragonfly.gif>
-dragonfly.gif
C:-  Iam -my.html Type this ;☞ <IMG SRC=Image/dragonfly.gif>
 Image
-dragonfly.gif
C:-  Iam -my.html Type this ;☞ <IMG SRC=../Image/dragonfly.gif>
 Image
-dragonfly.gif
C:-  Image -dragonfly.gif Type this ;☞ <IMG SRC=../dragonfly.gif>
 Iam
-my.html
 Go to Back
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This material has been taken from Online
Certificate course on HTML from Global Open
University Online certification programme. For
complete course material visit:
http://tgouwp.eduhttp://tgouwp.edu
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