HTML
Article ID: KB101119
HTML stands for "Hyper Text Markup Language."
- Hyper Text: Text in HTML documents can link to another document using
"hyperlinks."
- Markup: Different elements of the document have meaning. For
example, one part of the text could be a heading, and another part of the
text could be a paragraph.
- Language: HTML is a language with rules. Luckily, it's easy to learn!
HTML files contain "markup tags."
- An example of a markup tag is: <p>.
- Markup tags start with a left angle bracket: "<" and end with a right
angle bracket: ">."
- These markup tags tell the web browser how the page should be displayed.
- We'll discuss more how markup tags are used in the next article.
HTML
files must end in an ".htm" or ".html" extension.
- Extensions are the small three or four-letter code put at the end of
file names on Windows documents. (Sometimes these extensions are hidden.)
For example, a Microsoft Word document often ends with ".doc." A plain text
file ends with ".txt." A jpeg image ends with ".jpg." This tells the
computer what kind of file it is. HTML files end with either ".htm" or
".html."
In the next article, you'll make your first HTML page!
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