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HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
The language used to create documents on the World Wide Web. A 'mark-up language'
is a plain text specification where structural information (and sometimes
style/display information) is embedded within the actual text. HTML is a
sub-set of a much more general language called xml. Modern HTML complies
much more closely with the more rigorous xml definitions and is referred
to as xHTML. See also: xHTML, JavaScript and PHP.
HTML Tags
HTML is a set of instructions embedded within normal text
in a webpage. They take the form of keywords embedded within
angle brackets (perhaps more widely known as 'less than' and
'greater than' symbols). Most 'tags' take the form of
an opening (starting) and closing (ending) pair of tags. The
closing tag being distinguished by the presence of a slash as
the first character within the angle brackets.
<p> ... </p> - these two tags start a paragraph - and
then end a paragraph. Everything in between is the paragraph.
Major elements within a webpage include.
<html> ... </html> (the first and last lines of a webpage.
<head> ... </head> and <body> ... </body> these are
the two major elements within a webpage's HTML section. The HEAD
is a special area that contains information about the rest of
the page. The BODY is the actual content displayed within
the browser.
HEAD
Special area within the HTML of a webpage that carries
important information about a the rest of the webpage. Also
used to preload related files that the web browser requires
to display the page properly.
Header
Also known as masthead - this is the area of a webpage
that appears above all else. Usually containing a logo and
a site title and usually standard across a whole website
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