Many people that i have met have mentioned HTML to me without really knowing what it really means. Because of this i thought that maybe it would be a good idea to compile a tutorial for everyone to read.
When i listen to people talking about HTML; they never seemed to know what a HTML tag was so that is what i will focus on here.
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Some people who use HTML may notice that I place the tags below in the order they appear in a document.
Most people who use HTML know the tags which no HTML document can do without. Those are:
<html> = this is the tag which every HTML document must start with.
<head> = this contains primarily the TITLE tag and the META tag.
<title></title> = this contains the title of the page; it is displayed in the bar at the top which contains the name of your ISP and the minimize, restore and close icons.
</head> = this closes off the tag containing TITLE and META tags.
<body> = this tag indicates the beginning of the main body of text.
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Now follows tags which can be found anywhere after the BODY tag:
<font color="your color here"></font color> = this indicates that the following text will be the color you stated; you can state it using a hexadecimal code or a RGB code.
<font size="your font size here"></font size> = this indicates that the folloing text will be the size that you stated.
<font face="your font style here"></font face> = this indicates that the text between the tags will be of the style you stated (eg. Arial).
<p align="left,center or right"></p align> = this indicates that any text between the tags will be positioned in that specific spot on the line.
<p></p> = any text between the tags will be placed in a paragraph. There will be 1 line space between the paragraph and the next line or image.
<img src="location of your image"> = this tag tells the browser to collect an imagefrom a location and place it in that position on the page.
<a href="your link here"></a> = this tag tells the browser that if the text between the tags is clicked then link to the stated web address. (the address must start with "http://forums.xisto.com/;)
<b></b> = this tag tells the browser to in effect double or even triple the width of the letters transforming BOLD to BOLD.
<i></i> = this tag tells the browser to italicise the text between the tags which means it sort of leans in one direction for example ITALIC becomes ITALICS.
<u></u> = this tag tells the browser to underline all text between the tags with a solid line.
<table></table> = this tag tells the browser that a table will be made within them (tags will follow).
<tr></tr> = this tag tells the browser that a row of a table is between the tags.
<td><td> = this tag is placed between the <tr> tags; this tells the browser to add one column to the table.
This now shows all of the tags you need to create the main body of your webpages.
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To close off your script you need 2 tags and those are:
</body> = this tells the browser that the main body of text has now ended.
</html> = this tag tells the browser that the document has now finished.
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I hope this gives people the basic understanding of HTML tags that can be essential to creating your first web page.
Good luck with your HTML scripting.
