2. 2
AN INTRODUCTION HTML
• With HTML you can create your own
Web site.
• HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup
Language.
• HTML is not a programming language, it
is a Markup Language.
• A markup language is a set of markup
tags.
• HTML uses markup tags to describe
web pages.
3. HOW TO START
• Write html code in notepad.
• A text editor like “Notepad” to create and
save the HTML documents.
• A Web browser to view and test the HTML
documents.
• Web Browsers: It is a client software that
allows users to display and interact with a
hypertext document. Browsers interpret
code.
• The most popular web browsers that are
used today are Mozilla Firefox, Google
3
4. HTML Elements and
Tags
• The basic structure of an HTML
document is simple with the entire
document bound by a pair of
<html> and </html> tags. This has
two sections:
• Header – that appears on top of
the window.
• The <head>….</head> tags
make the header of the document.
• Body – that appears in the 4
5. HTML Tags
• HTML tags are keywords
surrounded by angle brackets (<
>).
• HTML tags normally come in pairs
like <html> and </html>.
• The first tag in a pair is called
start tag, and the second tag is
the end tag(closing tag).
• The text between the start and
end tags is the element content.
• HTML tags are not case sensitive.5
6. Explanation
–<HTML> - Describe HTML web
page that is to be viewed by a web
browser.
–<HEAD> - This defines the header
section of the page.
–<TITLE> - This shows a caption in
the title bar of the page.
–<BODY> - This tag show contents
of the web page will be displayed. 6
