Introduction to HTML

• HTML stands for "HyperText Markup Language"

• HTML is a collection of text surrounded by tags which modify the text of the document.

• All tags are encoded in angle brackets (<>).

• In general, tags work in pairs -- one to turn on the modification, one to turn it off. Stop tags look just like start tags except they have a slash (/) in front.

• <tag>affected text</tag>

• Some tags work on their own. Since they don’t have a closing tag, we place a / at the end of the tag. The Horizontal Rule tag <hr /> is an example.

• Most tags have attributes which can modify how they function:

• <tag attribute="value">affected text</tag>