- Hyper Text Mark-up Language
- HTML is a formatting; it simply provides directions for how information is to be dispalye din a web browser.
- Hyper text means that it is clickable--can link sources together
- a formatting language, not computer coding or programming.
- Most tags used in html are put inside angle brackets
- every document begins and ends with angled brackets (< and >) with html on the inside.
- The ending bracket ends with a slash.
- HTML ignores spaces--can put more than one space and it will still show one.
- Every web page starts with < html > and ends with </html>
- All heading information is with the <head>
- Within the <head> tag, put the <title> tag. The title will show up on the browser tab.
- All content of the page will be inside the body tags: <body> "your information" </body>
- To add a background color, after <body> put <body bgcolor = "your number">
<body>
All page content goes here
<body/>
</html>
<hr> followed by name
-<br /> makes a line break
-<hr /> makes a horizontal line on the page
-<strong>makes bold text<strong>
-<em>makes italic text</em>
- makes a space
-& nbsp; makes a space
-& amp; makes an ampersand
-& lt; makes a left angle bracket
-& gt; makes a right ampersand