1 Chapter 2: Web page Development using HTML 2.1What is HTML? HTML is a language for describing web pages. HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language HTML is a markup language A markup language is a set of markup tagsThe tags describesdocument content HTML documents containHTMLtagsand plain textHTML documents are also called web pages2.2HTML tags HTML markup tags are usually called HTML tags HTML tags are keywords (tag names) surrounded by angle brackets like <html> HTML tags normally come in pairslike <b> and </b> The first tag in a pair is the start tag,the second tag is the end tagThe end tag is written like the start tag, with a forward slashbefore the tag name Start and end tags are also called opening tagsand closing tags2.3Creating HTML documents Type html code in a notepad file and save it with .htm or .html extension. Open the file in any internet browser 2.4Breaking pages into paragraphs and other breaks Browser ignores white spaces such as blank space, tab, line break, paragraph etc. from html file. You can have blankspace by typing Line break by typing <br> at the end of the line Paragraph by typing it with in <p> </p> Preforma tted content by typing it within <pre> </pre> 2.5HTML style tag CSS Styles can be attached to html pages by using style tag. <html> <head> <style> h1 {color:red;} p {color:blue;} </style> </head> <body> <h1>This is a heading</ h1> <p>This is a paragraph.</p> </body> </html>
