HTML lesson 1

All of the text fields below (e.g. ) contain HTML. Use you mouse or keyboard to copy and paste the HTML into a "plain text editor" (e.g. notepad, textpad).

Save the file to your desktop as an HTML file, (e.g. file_name.html). Once they are saved, you can double click on them or use your keyboard to open them. They will automatically open in your default Web browser. When the files are open in your Web browser, you will be able to see how the HTML works in your browser.

Various Web browser types will display the HTML differently.

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Lesson 1:

HTML Document

The minimal HTML document starts with a tag that tells the Web browser that everything between these tags is an HTML document; that tag is . Its syntax is simply: Hosted by www.Geocities.ws

A Web page with text between the HTML tags will display OK on most Web browsers. However, you should make your HTML fully compliant with the standards. Therefore a document type tag is required before your HTML tag:

All other tags go between the HTML tags. There are two additional tags that are recommended for every HTML document; the HEAD and BODY tags.

In order to make a proper Web page the complete minimal syntax would look as follows:

Author	Charles E. Brown
Company	EWM / PSI
Comments to	email
Contact Page	Form
Created	Jan-01-1999
Updated
Copyright �1999-2001. All Rights Reserved.