HTML Lesson 1
Getting Started
As I mentioned earlier (if you read the introduction) then you would know that HTML is a script type language. Which means that each browser has to interpret the information. This would cause all browsers to have some differences of interpretation. Fortunately for us, W3C releases standards for HTML. All browsers follow these standards (if they wish to stay in bussiness). We will now cover the HTML 4.0 standards.
HTML Tags
A webpage is composed mainly of HTML tags and other web components. An HTML tag looks something like this <HTML>. It contains an opening less than key (<), the tag name and properties (if aplicable) and a colosing greater than key (>). There are two kinds of HTML tags. A Container and a Stand Alone tag. A container tag affects any text, or object between the opening and closing tags. A container must ALWAYS have an opening tag and a closing tag. Though some browsers won't produce an error if the closing tag is not present, errors in your page might arrise when you try to update it. Here is an example of a container tag <B>This text should be bold in an HTML page.</B>
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