HTML: A Starters Guide
Part One of HTML for Beginners
HTML -
What is HTML? HTML stands for hyper text markup language. It is a programming language that is used to display data in a web browser (you better know what that is or I will wonder how you got here).
To program in HTML all you need is a simple text editor, although there are many programs out there to help you build a web-page. An HTML file should always be saves as a .htm or .html file (index.html).
Getting started -
As I stated earlier, to build your web-page all you need is a text editor. We'll use notepad for our first file. It's a good idea to become familiar with the language before you get a fancy editor. An HTML file contains tags that tell your browser what to do. All HTML files contain the following tags: , , , , , .
All tags should be written in lower case and should have < < surrounding them. Most tags have a closing tag as well, they are denoted by a , and this is a closing tag: .
Type or copy and paste the following into Notepad or it's OS X equivalent TextEdit (with TextEdit your file must be saved as a plain text, and you must set it to ignore rich text commands in HTML).
This is my first Web Page! Isn't it great?
Save your file as a .htm or .html file. (in Notepad you must change save type to all). Name it whatever you want.
Open your web browser and open your file, or you could just double-click on it.
Hopefuly you got a simple page that said "This is my first Web Page! Isn't it great?". Make sure that it was typed exactly as above. If it came out OK, add around "This is my first Web Page!", and "around Isn't it great?". Like this: This is my first Web Page!Isn't it great?.
Congrats you have just completed your first web-page, and formatted some text! I know to many that could be very boring, but it is were most programmers start.
Keep an eye out for: HTML: Basic Tags and Text Formatting
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Post a CommentThis was still helpful despite the mess up. I had the same trouble trying to type an article about HTML. I think it's too much for me for right now. I'll just stick to poetry and recipes :)
I will continue to contact AC to get it fixed.
This is an open tag: <html>.
This is a close tag: </html>.
See the difference? It's the / in the tag. It means that it is a close tag.
Since My article has not been fixed yet I will try to patch it back together right here.
The basic tags in a HTML file are:
<html> , </html> , <head> , </head> , <title> , </title> , <body> </body>
I did know that. Like I said the formatting changed. I had < and >. I had the correct entity name for the HTML! When I checked it after submitting, it was fine. No problems.
None of your tags showed up because AC probably strips all HTML embedded in your article, with the exception of hyperlinks, to prevent execution of malicious code. This is something you should have known, considering you're writing tutorials concerning HTML.
Some of the formating changed when it was published, I have contacted AC about this. < > Are what was in the article. I have no clue why things changed. Hopefully I can get it fixed. Thanks.