INTRODUTION TO HTML-Unit 1
HTML CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION OF HTML
• OBJECTIVE OF HTML
• WORLD WIDE WEB
• HTML TOOLS
• HTML TERMINOLGY
• HOW TO CREATE AN HTML DOCUMENT
• S A V I N G A N D V I E W I N G A H T M L DOCUMENT
• TEXT TEGS
• SPECIAL CHARTACTER
• ADVANTAGES OF HTML
• DISADVANTAGES OF HTML
INTRODUCTION OF HTML
• HTML is a language for describing web pages.
• HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
• HTML is not a programming language, it is
a markup language
• A markup language is a set of markup tags
• HTML uses markup tags to describe web
pages
INTRODUCTION OF HTML
• HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is used to create document on the
World Wide Web. It is simply a collection of certain key words called
‘Tags’ that are helpful in writing the document to be displayed using a
browser on Internet.
It is a platform independent language that can be
used on any platform such as Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and so on. To
display a document in web it is essential to mark-up the different e l eme
nts (headings, paragraphs, tables, and so on) of
t h e document with the HTML tags. To view a mark-up document u s e r
has to open the document in a browser. A brows
e r understands and interpret the HTML tags, identifies the structure of
the document (which part are which) and makes decision about
presentation (how the parts look) of the document.
HTML also provides tags to make the document look
attractive using graphics, font size and colors. User can make a link to the
other document or the different section of the same document by
creating Hypertext Links also known as Hyperlinks
OBJECTIVE OF HTML
• create, save and view a HTML document
• format a web page using section heading tags
• describe Ordered and Unordered lists
• explain graphics in HTML document
• describe hypertext links and making
text/image link
WORLD WIDE WEB
• The World Wide Web (abbreviated
as WWW or W3 and commonly known as the
Web)is a system of
interlinked hypertext documents accessed via
the Internet. With a web browser, one can
view web pages that may contain text,
images, videos, and other multimedia and
navigate between them via hyperlinks.
HTML TOOLS
• There are two tools of HTML.
a) HTML Editor: it is the program that one uses to
create and save HTML documents. They fall into two
categories:
- Text based or code based which allows one to see the
HTML code as one is creating a document.e.g.
Notepad.
- Netscape composer
HTML TOOLS
b) Web Browser: it is the program that one uses
to view and test the HTML documents. They
translate Html encoded files into
text,image,sounds and other features user
see. Microsoft Internet
Explorer,Netscape,Mosaic Chrome are
examples of browsers that enables user to
view text and images and many more other
World Wide Web featueres.They are software
that must be installed on user computer.
HTML TERMINOLGY
• Some commonly used terms in HTML are:
• a)Tag: Tags are always written within angles brackets. it is a
piece of text is used to identify an element so that the
browser realizes how to display its contents.e.g.<HTML>
tag indicates the start of an HTML document .HTML tag can
be two types. They are:-
• -Paired Tags :A tag is said to be a paired tag if text is placed
between a tag and its companions tag.In paired tag ,the
first tag is referred to as opening tag and the second tag is
referred to as closing tag.
• -Unpaired Tags: An unpaired tag does not have a
companion tag .unpaired tag also known as singular or
Stand-Alone tags.e.g:<br>,<hr> etc.
HTML TERMINOLGY
b) Attribute: Attribute is the property of an tag that specified in the opening angle
brackets. It supplies additional information like color,size,home font-style etc to
the browser about a tag. E.g. most of the common attributes are height,
color,width,src,border,align etc.
c) DTD: Document Type Definition is a collection of rules written in standard
Generalized Markup Language(SGML).HTML is define in terms of its DTDS. All the
details of HTML tags, entities and related document structure are defined in the
DTDS.
d) ELEMENT: Element is the component of a document’s structure such as a title, a
paragraph or a list. It can include an opening and a closing tag and the contents
within it.
HOW TO CREATE AN HTML DOCUMENT
• The essential tags that are required to create
a HTML document are:
• <HTML>.............</HTML>
• <HEAD>.............</HEAD>
• <BODY>.............</BODY>
