Source: TechTuts.com

Beginning HTML


  • Intro to HTML
  • Text Tricks
  • Parts of a Document
  • Image Things
  • Misc. Stuff

- What is HTML?
HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language, and it is the simplest language for coding websites. It comes in handy often, so I will try to teach you the basics. Before learning the code, there is one main idea you need to grasp. All codes should be inside these two signs: < and >. The greater than and less than signs. To begin any code, you need the less than sign, and to end, you need the greater than sign. If it helps you to think that the signs are "eating" the code, you can do that. These signs are called tags. You will also need to end any code with a tag. This tag, however, will have a less than sign, slash, code, greater than sign.



To recap, you should have your codes like this:
HTML Code:
<yourcode> something like text </yourcode>

There are a few exceptions to this rule, and we will talk about them later. (Such as <br />) The end tag is also the start tag.
If this does not make sense to you, stop now, or reread it. This is the base of HTML.