HTML, HyperText Markup Language, is a document formatting language that all computers on the Internet can understand. The HTML documents are created by using what is called tag. Tags have beginning and ending identifiers to communicate to the brower the beginning and ending text that is to be formatted by the tag in question.
Most of tags have an opening and a closing tag. Each Tag is enclosed with the "less than" and "greater than" sign. For example, the closing tag usually looks the exact same as the opening tag with the exception of the "forward slash" that identifies it as a closing tag.
The Web servers can recognize the protocol for sharing Web files, so we can use HTML to connect to any files that exist on the Web. An Anchor is the HTML construct that caused text to be highlighted when we look into the document with a browser. An anchor exists within the <A> and</A> tags. The <A> tag by itself does not do anything. We will need to use HREF to enhance the <A> tag. HREF, Hypertext REFerence, is the location of the file we want to load. Most of the anchors are in the form <A HREF="URL">, where URL is the location of the resource to which we want the link to point. Words between the <A> and </A> tags would be displayed as a hyperlink. You can check with the
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Besides the incorporation of hyperlinks, the other advantage of the Web is the ability to integrate graphic images into a document. Images are placed in Web documents using the IMG tag, <IMG>. It is an empty tag, and therefore it has no closing tag. The <IMG> tag by itself does not do anything. We need to tell the browser where the image is located. Therefore, we have to put the address of the image in the document within the IMG tag. In order to make the <IMG> work, we need to use the SRC, source, which means that the source of this graphic. A typical IMG tag will take the form of this:
Most browsers can display in-line images in the form of X Bitmap (xbm) or Graphic Interchange Format (GIF). The in-line images are images next to text. Gif and xbm are different representation schemes for image data in binary. There are two ways to have graphics on the Web page. The first is to use a graphic that is on somebody's page. The second is to upload the graphic to our own account. If we want to save a graphic from somebody's page, we need to click and hold down on the graphic until a menu comes up. Then, we choose "save this image as..." where the graphic will be saved on our own account. Some people like to put animation on their Web pages. The animation graphic is saved in the same way. Here are some about graphic images.
On most pages, we want to have a specific color for the background, text, unvisited links, visited links, and active links. In order to do this, we need to find the code number for the specific color that we are looking for. Here is a that has a huge list of code numbers.
Type these below the TITLE tag.
We can also string two or more of these commands together:
Updated: 11/22/96
