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Creating Web Pages With HTML

Web pages are written using the Hyper Text Markup Language - HTML for short. It is a simple language which defines how the information within the page should be presented. It is unlike conventional programming languages, in that it is a markup language, which means that a page is marked with codes to define how it should be displayed in a web browser. These codes are called tags.

Tags are plain text messages embedded within the page which the browser reads to determine the page's appearance. Tags are identified within angle-brackets < and >, e.g. <TITLE> and </TITLE>. As you can see, most tags also have end tags, marked with a forward slash before the tag's name, indicating that everything between the start tag and end tag must be displayed appropriately.

HTML Structure

All HTML pages begin with the same basic structure as follows:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE> The Title of The Page </TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
The Body of The Page
</BODY>
</HTML>

The <HTML> and </HTML> tags tell the browser that the page contains HTML codes between them.

The <HEAD> and </HEAD> tags contain the header information for the page. One example of header information is the TITLE of the page, identified between the <TITLE> and </TITLE> tags.

The <BODY> and </BODY> tags contain the whole body of the page that will be displayed by the web browser.

These tags form the basis of all web pages, and is all you NEED to know to create a web page. However, pages can be made to look more interesting, by using additional tags as outlined below.

Basic Tags

Here we will be looking into some more HTML tags to help enhance the appearance of your web pages. They are divided into a few categories to help you find what you need.

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