HTML

Web pages are written in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). HTML is very simple to learn and to use. HTML files are just plain text files with tags in <angle brackets> to mark any formatting or other special features. These tags tell the WWW how to display your file.

You can learn HTML by referring to the NCSA's Beginner's Guide to HTML, a sensible and simple introduction.

Each HTML file should have a name that ends with the extension ".html"; for example, "home.html" or "my.file.html". The .html extension will identify the file to the WWW as a file that uses HTML.

You can examine the HTML source of any web document. This is particularly easy in Netscape and Mosaic. In Netscape, go to the View menu and choose Source. In Mosaic (version 2.0), go to the File menu and choose View Source.

Try viewing the HTML of this document. (When you do this, don't panic. You don't need to understand all the tags right now. Just notice that there are tags in <angle brackets> surrounded by a lot of ordinary text.)

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