3. What is HTML?
Hyper Text Markup Language
o Web authoring software language
o Specifically created to make World Wide Web
pages
o Telling the browser what to do, and what properties to use.
o A series of tags that are integrated into a text document.
4. Tags
o Tags are surrounded with brackets:
<html> , <title>, <hr>
o Most tags come in pairs:
<p> </p>, <head> </head>, <title> </title>
o The first tag turns the action on, and the second turns it
off.
o The second tag (turn off) starts with a forward slash: <b>
text </b> text
o Tags are not case sensitive.
o Many tags have attributes:
<p align=“center”> centers the paragraph
5. How to Create, View and Edit
HTML files?
1. Use a text editor such as Notepad to
create the document.
2. Write the needed tags.
3. Save the file as filename.html
4. Open the HTML file in a web browser
(Internet Explorer)
6. 4. To make changes on your HTML files:
• Open the html file again in Notepad
• make changes
• save the document again
• switch back to Internet Explorer
• click on REFRESH and view the new HTML
file