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HTML- hyper text markup language
-specifies format or tags, not really programming. It gives directions as to how information should be displayed i a web browser.
-most tags are put inside <angle brackets>

Every webpage starts with <html>and ends with </html>
All heading information is within the <head> tag
Within the <head> tag, put the <title> tag. The title will show up on the browser tab, not on the page.
Within the <body> tag is all of the content that is on the page.
You can change the color of the background by writing <body bgcolor = "#ooooff"> for the body tag **chose the code for the wanted color.

Structure of a Simple HTML Page:


<html>
  <head>
      <title> </title>
  </head>
  <body>
    all page content goes here
  </body>
</html>

Other Useful HTML Codes:


<br /> makes a line break
<p> and </p> are a paragraph tag--they create space between paragraphs.
<hr /> makes a horizontal line on the page
<strong> makes bold text </strong>
<em> makes italic text- stands for emphasis </em>

&amp; makes an ampersand
&nbsp; makes a space
&lt; makes a left angle bracket
&gt; makes a right angle bracket

*for reference: http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm
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