Getting Started
HTML documents are plain-text files that are created using a text editor. Word processing software can be used if the document is saved as "text only with line breaks."
Helpful Terms
WWW: World Wide Web
HTML: Hypertext Markup Language
Text Editor: Simple text on edditing software, (Noepad, FrontPage, Dreamweaver, etc.)
Tags: Used to denote various element in the HTML document
Attribute: Additional information icluded inside the start tag.
Page Options
Page options are included as attributes of the <body> tag.
Background Image
The BACKGROUND attribute allows an image to be used as a backguond for your document.
example:
<BODY BACKGROUND="header.gif">
Background, Text & Hyperlink Colors
By default, browsers display text in black and hyperlinks in blue with a gray or white background. THML allows you to change these element.
BGCOLOR= background
TEXT= Text displayed in the browser
LINK= Hyperlink
ALINK= Active Hyperlink
VLINK Visited Hyperlink
example:
<BODY BGCOLOR="000000" TEXT="96900C" LINK="#FFFFFF">
Page Options
Every HTML document should contain the basic HTML tags. The head contains the title, and the body contains the text that is made up of paragraphs, lists, images, and other elements. Not every browser supports all tags. However, the browser ignores the tag if it is not suppored.
example:
<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Lorem ipsum</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <H1>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.</H1> <P>Proin turpis. Nullam semper ornare nulla.</P> <P>Mauris condimentum nunc. Nunc adipiscing, magna nec malesuada rutrum.</P> </BODY> </HTML>
And heres what it would look like:
Lorem ipsum
Proin turpis. Nullam semper ornare nulla.
Mauris condimentum nunc. Nunc adipiscing, magna nec malesuada rutrum.
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