HTML Web page is text file formatted with ‘Tags’. A tag is a command that directs the HTML document to apply the relevant formatting. To create you HTML web page you must know the basic HTML commands or tags.
Basic Structure of HTML Web Page:
<html> tag along with its closing </html> defines the page format as html web page. <head> tag having <title> tag defines the heading area and Page title of the web page. Immediate after closing </head> tag there is a <body> tag that defines the working area of web page.
HTML documents works upon Document Type Definition i.e. DTD. DTD contains all the definitions of HTML tags, attributes, elements and entities.
HTML tags are the commands used to define the formatting of HTML web page e.g. <font></font>, <p></p>, <div></div> etc. HTML attributes are the properties of HTML formatting tags e.g. <p align=”center”> here align is an attribute of paragraph formatting <p> tag. Elements, notations, entities and references to color codes, dimension units all are based upon DTD.
You can browse HTML Web Page in any web browser e.g. Internet Explorer, FireFox or Opera. Hypertext transfer Protocol (HTTP) is used to access web pages. When a web page is requested to web server then HTTP serves the requested page.
You can use Cascading Style-Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript to provide dynamic effects to your web page. Combination of JavaScript and CSS provides more interactivity to the web pages e.g. you can add menus, dynamically changing mouse over effects, pop-up adds and many more dynamic behaviors.
A web page may contain number of elements to display information in different ways. Following are some of the web page elements:
To create your HTML web pages you must also know What is HTML-what does html stand for?
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