What is an html File?
HTML is a format that tells a computer how to display a web page. The documents themselves are plain text files with special "tags" or codes that a web browser uses to interpret and display information on your computer screen.
Open your text editor and type the following text:
<html>
<head>
<title>My First Webpage</title>
</head>
<body>
This is my first homepage. <b>This text is bold</b>
</body>
</html>
The text between the <title> tags is the title of your document. The <title> tag is used to uniquely identify each document and is also displayed in the title bar of the browser window.
The text between the <body> tags is the text that will be displayed in your browser.
The text between the <b> and </b> tags will be displayed in a bold font.
When you save an HTML file, you can use either the .htm or the .html extension. The .htm extension comes from the past when some of the commonly used software only allowed three letter extensions. It is perfectly safe to use either .html or .htm, but be consistent. mypage.htm and mypage.html are treated as different files by the browser.
How to View HTML Source
HTML is a format that tells a computer how to display a web page. The documents themselves are plain text files with special "tags" or codes that a web browser uses to interpret and display information on your computer screen.
- HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
- An HTML file is a text file containing small markup tags
- The markup tags tell the Web browser how to display the page
- An HTML file must have an htm or html file extension
Try It?
Open your text editor and type the following text:
<html>
<head>
<title>My First Webpage</title>
</head>
<body>
This is my first homepage. <b>This text is bold</b>
</body>
</html>
Save the file as mypage.html. Start your Internet browser. Select Open
(or Open Page) in the File menu of your browser. A dialog box will
appear. Select Browse (or Choose File) and locate the html file you just
created - mypage.html - select it and click Open. Now you should see an
address in the dialog box, for example C:\MyDocuments\mypage.html.
Click OK, and the browser will display the page. To view how the page
should look, visit this web page:
http://profdevtrain.austincc.edu/html/mypage.html
Example Explained
What you just made is a skeleton html document. This is the minimum
required information for a web document and all web documents should
contain these basic components. The first tag in your html document is
<html>. This tag tells your browser that this is the start of an
html document. The last tag in your document is </html>. This tag
tells your browser that this is the end of the html document.
The text between the <head> tag and the </head> tag is header information. Header information is not displayed in the browser window.
The text between the <head> tag and the </head> tag is header information. Header information is not displayed in the browser window.
The text between the <title> tags is the title of your document. The <title> tag is used to uniquely identify each document and is also displayed in the title bar of the browser window.
The text between the <body> tags is the text that will be displayed in your browser.
The text between the <b> and </b> tags will be displayed in a bold font.
HTM or HTML Extension?
When you save an HTML file, you can use either the .htm or the .html extension. The .htm extension comes from the past when some of the commonly used software only allowed three letter extensions. It is perfectly safe to use either .html or .htm, but be consistent. mypage.htm and mypage.html are treated as different files by the browser.
How to View HTML Source
A good way to learn
HTML is to look at how other people have coded their html pages. To find
out, simply click on the View option in your browsers toolbar and
select Source or Page Source. This will open a window that shows you the
actual HTML of the page. Go ahead and view the source html for this
page.
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