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| HTML (HyperText Markup Language) | |
|---|---|
| File extension: | .html, .htm |
| MIME type: | text/html |
| Type code: | TEXT |
| Uniform Type Identifier: | public.html |
| Developed by: | World Wide Web Consortium & WHATWG |
| Type of format: | Markup language |
| Extended from: | SGML |
| Extended to: | XHTML |
| Standard(s): | ISO/IEC 15445 W3C HTML 4.01 W3C HTML 5 (draft) |
Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) is a markup language[1] for creating a webpage. Webpages are usually viewed in a web browser. They can include writing, links, pictures, and even sound and video. HTML is used to mark and describe each of these kinds of content so the web browser can display them correctly. HTML also adds meta information to a webpage. Meta information is usually not shown by web browsers and is data about the web page, e.g., the name of the person who created the page. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is used to style HTML elements while JavaScript is used for website behavior and also changing the HTML and CSS.
HTML was made by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). There are several versions of HTML. As of September 2018, the current standard of HTML is dubbed HTML 5 and is specifically at version 5.2.
Contents
Tags
HTML uses "elements" to let the browser know how a webpage is made of. Elements are shown as "tags" in the code, written with angle brackets: <example>
Some tags only work in certain browsers. For example, the <menuitem> tag, which is used to make something appear when the person presses the right button of the mouse, only works on the Mozilla Firefox browser.[2] Other browsers simply ignore this tag and display the writing normally. Many web page creators avoid using these "non-standard" tags because they want their pages to look the same with all browsers.
Example
Here is an example page in HTML with "Hello world!".<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Hi!</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello world!</p>
</body>
</html>
<html></html><body></body><title>This is a title</title>Example HTML tags
Here are some example HTML tags: [note 1]
| Tag name | Name | Function | Code Example |
|---|---|---|---|
<!DOCTYPE>
|
Doctype | Defines the Document type | <!DOCTYPE html>
|
<html>
|
HTML | Defines an HTML document and starts a HTML document. | <html>All code</html>
|
<head>
|
Head | Contains any code that is not used to display elements on the webpage | <head></head>
|
<title>
|
Title | Defines the title of the webpage (shown on the tab) and is entered within the <head>
|
<title>Webpage</title>
|
<body>
|
Body | Contains the visible elements of the webpage. | <body>Html tags</body>
|
<h1> to <h6>
|
Headings | Headings of various sizes (<h1> being the largest)
|
<h1>Heading</h1>
|
<p>
|
Paragraph | Defines a paragraph of text | <p>TEXT</p>
|
<a>
|
Anchor | Creates active links to other web pages | <a href="www.domain.com">Visit our site</a>
|
<img>
|
Image | Displays an image on the page | <img src="ImageUrl" alt="Text displayed if image is not available">
|
<br>
|
Break | Inserts a single line break | Text <br> Text
|
<center>
|
Center | Moves content to the center of the page | <center>Code</center>
|
<script>
|
Script | Creates a script in the webpage, usually written in JavaScript | <script>alert("Hello World!")</script>
|
Using HTML Tags
Making a web page
Making a web page is easy.All you need to remember is the tags and the order to make a web page.
First, you need to find a place to type in the HTML Tags (I recommend notepad) and type down the tags.
Here is another example of a HTML Tag page.
<html>
<head>
<title> Hi! <title>
<h1> Hello world!</h1>
</head>
<body>
<p>
This is a HTML Tag page.
</p>
<footer>
By: *Insert name here*
</footer>
</html>
Once your done, save in this in this format: helloworld.htm
(don't put spaces)
And you're done! Once you save it in your computer, if you press it, it will send you to your web page in google!
Other websites
- HTML Source: Beginner's HTML Tutorial - a site of tutorials aimed at web design advanced.
- HTML Dog is a site that helps new writers write good, simple HTML and make it look good with CSS.
- w3schools - A site of web technology tutorials
- MDN HTML page - Another page for HTML learning.
Notes
References
- ↑ "Why HTML is Not a Programming Language". Syracuse University. http://infospace.ischool.syr.edu/2012/04/05/why-html-is-not-a-programming-language/. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
- ↑ "MDN Web Docs". 2019-12-25. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/menuitem.
- ↑ "HTML elements reference". https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
