Hypertext Markup Language, a.k.a. HTML
Definition: HyperText Markup Language: a set of standards, a variety of SGML, used to tag the elements of a hypertext document. It is the standard protocol for formatting and displaying documents on the World Wide Web.
HTML basically created this web page! I added the background image, picture above and the basic script in order for the browser to translate it to what you now see on your screen. Isn't it amazing? Here are some basic HTML scripts:
First, open Notepad on your computer (if you are using a Microsoft Operating System). Below are the tags that are essential to make every web page. YOU MUST INCLUDE THESE TAGS WHEN MAKING A WEB PAGE!!!
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>
My First Web Page
</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
Insert all of your content here.
</BODY>
</HTML>
To have your text bold, you would use <b>YOUR TEXT</b>
To have your text italtic, you would use <i>YOUR TEXT</i>
To have your text underlined, you would use <u>YOUR TEXT</u>
To have a specific font for your text, you can use <FONT face="FONT NAME">
Note: All web pages automatically come with Times New Roman as their font style.
Under the font tag, you can add size="YOUR SIZE" to make your text the size and color you would like. Colors can be used in text form or with hexadecimal numbers. Your tag would look like this: <FONT face="FONT NAME" size="YOUR NUMBER" color="YOUR NUMBER">. My webpage has this script: <FONT face="Tahoma" size="2" color="black">
Web page fonts come in seven different sizes:
Size 1 bold italic underlined
Size 2 bold italic underlined
Size 3 bold italic underlined
Size 4 bold italic underlined
Size 5 bold italic underlined
Size 6 bold italic underlined
Size 7 bold italic underlined
Header fonts are also used at the top of pages sometimes. Here are the scripts and sizes for headers:
<H1>YOUR TEXT</H1>
To make your text go to the next line, you cannot use the enter button in your script. The browser must read the tag for a break or a new paragraph break. Here are the tags:
<br> for a page break (just the next line) or <p> for a paragraph break.
To insert an image, you would use: <img src="filename.gif/jpg/bmp">
Cascading Style Script, a.k.a. CSS
Definition: (CSS) An extension to HTML to allow styles, e.g. colour, font, size to be specified for certain elements of a hypertext document. Style information can be included in-line in the HTML file or in a separate CSS file (which can then be easily shared by multiple HTML files). Multiple levels of CSS can be used to allow selective overriding of styles.
This is a link with CSS: Draac.com- for HTML Step-by-Step guides! It changes color when your mouse hovers over the link. Another element of CSS on this page is the colored scrollbar. I used the following style sheet for this webpage (You can change the colors to your taste. You can use either color names or hexadecimal numbers):
<!-- A:link {color:pink};} A:visited {color:pink;} A:active {color:pink;} A:hover{color:hotpink; background-color:black;} } BODY { scrollbar-face-color: white; scrollbar-highlight-color: white; scrollbar-3dlight-color: white; scrollbar-darkshadow-color: white; scrollbar-shadow-color: white; scrollbar-arrow-color: hotpink; scrollbar-track-color: 3399ff; }
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Definition: (Formerly "LiveScript") Netscape's simple, cross-platform, World-Wide Web scripting language, only very vaguely related to Java (which is a Sun trademark). JavaScript is intimately tied to the World-Wide Web, and currently runs in only three environments - as a server-side scripting language, as an embedded language in server-parsed HTML, and as an embedded language run in web browsers where it is the most important part of DHTML.
JavaScript has a simplified C-like syntax and is tightly integrated with the browser Document Object Model. It is useful for implementing enhanced forms, simple web database front-ends, and navigation enhancements. It is unusual in that the scope of variables extends throughout the function in which they are declared rather than the smallest enclosing block as in C.
JavaScript originated from Netscape and, for a time, only their products supported it. Microsoft now supports a work-alike which they call JScript. The resulting inconsistencies make it difficult to write JavaScript that behaves the same in all browsers. This could be attributed to the slow progress of JavaScript through the standards bodies.
JavaScript runs "100x" slower than C, as it is purely interpreted (Java runs "10x" slower than C code). Netscape and allies say JavaScript is an "open standard" in an effort to keep Microsoft from monopolising web software as they have desktop software. Netscape and Sun have co-operated to enable Java and JavaScript to exchange messages and data.
This is a date script developed with JavaScript:
For a library of JavaScript codes, I reccomend that you go to the JavaScript Source
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All of the definitions used are from Dictionary.com.