HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. This language is the basic tool for creating a web page. The name of HTML may sound complicated but it actually means it is a normal text just “marked up” so that one document can “hyperlink” the other. The “marking up” consists of little formatting commands called tags. Hence HTML is a hidden code that helps us to communicate with others on the World Wide Web. The basic HTML is easy to understand and can be learnt quickly.
The first thing that you will have to understand about HTML is that it has tags. Now what are tags? Tags surround a particular word or a bunch of words to tell the web browser what special formatting to do. When writing HTML, you add ‘tags’ to the text in order to create the structure. These tags tell the browser how to display the text or the graphics in the document. The first thing that is to be remembered about these tags is that they always exist in pairs. Every time you use a tag for example <html>, you must close it another tag, in this case </html>. Note the ‘/’ slash before the closing word html that distinguishes the closing tag from the opening one.
The basic html page begins with the tag <html> and ends with </html>. In between the two there are two sections called the header and the body.
The header is enclosed by <head> and </head> tags, which contains information about the page that would not appear on the page itself such as the title. The body of the web page is enclosed by <body> and </body>. Every thing that is to be displayed on the web page is placed in this section.
There are some basic rules that are to kept in mind when you write a web page in HTML
The first rule of HTML is that the HTML tags are always surrounded by angle brackets.
The words or letters between the two angle brackets are called elements. These are coded commands within the HTML. These elements tell the browser how to display the web page. There are two types of tags in HTML: the container tags and the empty tags. The container tags always wrap around a text or graphics and come in pair with an opening and a closing. For example: <html>…. </html>.
On the other hand the empty tag stands alone. The tag <br> is the one that adds a line break. Empty tags do not have to be wrapped around copy and do not require closing.
The second rule of HTML is that it is not case sensitive. You can use either lower case or upper case. <HTML> and <html> mean the same.
The third rule is that every html page has two parts: the head and the body. There must be <html>, <head> and <body> container tags in every HTML file. To build any web page, you will need four primary tags: <html>, <head>, <title> and <body>. These are all container tags and must appear as pairs with the beginning and an ending
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