Html introduction

 HTML is a language for describing web pages.
 HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
 HTML is a markup language
 A markup language is a set of markup tags
 The tags describe document content
 HTML documents contain HTML tags and plain text
 HTML documents are also called web pages

HTML markup tags are usually called HTML tags
 HTML tags are keywords (tag names)
surrounded by angle brackets like <html>
 HTML tags normally come in pairs like <b> and
</b>
 The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second
tag is the end tag
 The end tag is written like the start tag, with
a forward slash before the tag name
 Start and end tags are also called opening
tags and closing tags

 HTML tags" and "HTML elements" are
often used to describe the same thing.
 But strictly speaking, an HTML element is
everything between the start tag and
the end tag, including the tags:
<tagname>content</tagname>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>

 The purpose of a web browser (such as
Google Chrome, Internet Explorer,
Firefox, Safari) is to read HTML
documents and display them as web
pages.
 The browser does not display the HTML
tags, but uses the tags to determine how
the content of the HTML page is to be
presented/displayed to the user:

 Below is a visualization of an HTML page
structure:

 Since the early days of the web, there
have been many versions of HTML:
Version Year
HTML 1991
HTML+ 1993
HTML 2.0 1995
HTML 3.2 1997
HTML 4.01 1999
XHTML 1.0 2000
HTML5 2012
XHTML5 2013

 The <!DOCTYPE> declaration helps the
browser to display a web page correctly.
 There are many different documents on
the web, and a browser can only display
an HTML page 100% correctly if it knows
the HTML type and version used.

 HTML5
<!DOCTYPE html>
 HTML 4.01
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD
HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
 XHTML 1.0
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD
XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml
1-transitional.dtd">

HTML can be edited by using a
professional HTML editor like:
 Adobe Dreamweaver
 Microsoft Expression Web
However, for learning HTML we
recommend a text editor like Notepad
(PC) or TextEdit (Mac). We believe using
a simple text editor is a good way to
learn HTML.

 Step 1: Start Notepad
 To start Notepad go to:
 Start
All Programs
Accessories
Notepad


 Step 2: Edit Your HTML with Notepad
 Type your HTML code into your Notepad:
 Save as and Run

HTML headings are defined with the <h1>
to <h6> tags.
<h1>This is a heading</h1>

 HTML paragraphs are defined with the
<p> tag.
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
<p>This is another paragraph.</p>

 HTML links are defined with the <a> tag.
<a href="http://www.w3schools.com">This
is a link</a>

 HTML images are defined with the <img>
tag.
<img src="w3schools.jpg" width="104"
height="142">

 An HTML element is everything from the start
tag to the end tag:
 * The start tag is often called the opening tag.
The end tag is often called the closing tag.
Start tag * Element content End tag *
<p> This is a paragraph </p>
<a
href="default.htm">
This is a link </a>
<br>

 An HTML element starts with a start tag /
opening tag
 An HTML element ends with an end tag /
closing tag
 The element content is everything between
the start and the end tag
 Some HTML elements have empty content
 Empty elements are closed in the start tag
 Most HTML elements can have attributes

 HTML elements can have attributes
 Attributes provide additional
information about an element
 Attributes are always specified in the start
tag
 EX :
HTML links are defined with the <a> tag. The
link address is specified in the href attribute:
 <a href="http://www.w3schools.com">This is
a link</a>

 Below is a list of some attributes that can
be used on any HTML element:

 The <head> element is a container for all
the head elements. Elements inside
<head> can include scripts, instruct the
browser where to find style sheets,
provide meta information, and more.
 The following tags can be added to the
head section: <title>, <style>, <meta>,
<link>, <script>, <noscript>, and <base>.

 The <title> tag defines the title of the
document.
 The <title> element is required in all
HTML/XHTML documents.
The <title> element:
 defines a title in the browser toolbar
 provides a title for the page when it is
added to favorites
 displays a title for the page in search-
engine results

 <!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of the document</title>
</head>
<body>
The content of the document......
</body>
</html>

 The <link> tag defines the relationship
between a document and an external
resource.
 The <link> tag is most used to link to style
sheets:
 <head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="mystyle.css">
</head>

 The <style> tag is used to define style
information for an HTML document.
 Inside the <style> element you specify how
HTML elements should render in a browser:
 <head>
<style type="text/css">
body {background-color:yellow;}
p {color:blue;}
</style>
</head>

 CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is used to style
HTML elements.
 CSS was introduced together with HTML 4, to
provide a better way to style HTML elements.
CSS can be added to HTML in the following ways:
 Inline - using the style attribute in HTML elements
 Internal - using the <style> element in the
<head> section
 External - using an external CSS file

 EX : <p style="color:blue;margin-
left:20px;">This is a paragraph.</p>
 <body style="background-color:yellow;">
<h2 style="background-color:red;">This is
a heading</h2>
<p style="background-color:green;">This
is a paragraph.</p>
</body>

 An internal style sheet can be used if one
single document has a unique style.
Internal styles are defined in the <head>
section of an HTML page, by using the
<style> tag, like this:

 <head>
<style type="text/css">
body {background-color:yellow;}
p {color:blue;}
</style>
</head>

 An external style sheet is ideal when the style is
applied to many pages. With an external style
sheet, you can change the look of an entire
Web site by changing one file. Each page
must link to the style sheet using the <link> tag.
The <link> tag goes inside the <head> section:
 <head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="mystyle.css">
</head>

 Tables are defined with the <table> tag.
 A table is divided into rows (with the <tr>
tag), and each row is divided into data
cells (with the <td> tag). td stands for "table
data," and holds the content of a data cell.
A <td> tag can contain text, links, images,
lists, forms, other tables, etc.

 Let's start with the semantic HTML code
required to render a basic table

 <table border="1">
<tr>
<td>row 1, cell 1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
</tr>
</table>

<caption></caption>:
The <caption> element allows you to
give the table data a caption. Most
browsers will center the caption and
render it the same width as the table by
default.

 The <th> element delineates the content
between the tag as the table head titles for
each table section, which can be a
column, a row or a group of cells. This is
useful not just to help semantically describe
what the function of this content is, but it
also helps render it more accurately in a
variety of browsers and devices.

 HTML Unordered Lists
 An unordered list starts with the <ul> tag.
Each list item starts with the <li> tag.
 The list items are marked with bullets
(typically small black circles).
 <ul>
<li>Coffee</li>
<li>Milk</li>
</ul>

 An ordered list starts with the <ol> tag.
Each list item starts with the <li> tag.
 The list items are marked with numbers.
<ol>
<li>Coffee</li>
<li>Milk</li>
</ol>

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