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Foil 3 HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

From Introduction to HTML ECS400 Senior Undergraduate Course -- Spring Semester 1996. by Nancy J. McCracken * See also color IMAGE

is the formatting language used for creating hypertext documents on the World Wide Web, which can be displayed by Web browsers (sometimes referred to as viewers) such as Mosaic.
HTML is very simple - a minimum of formatting functions
consists of formatting commands called tags in a text file
  • tags are in < > brackets
  • most are paired for beginning and end: <title> . . . </title>
  • not case sensitive: <TITLE> is the same as <title>
  • Some tags have attributes within the brackets
  • <tag attribute1=value1 attribute2=value2 . . . >
  • In general, numeric values are just given as numbers, while text values are put into quotes.



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