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HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. Although it isn't a language like English that we are all familiar with, it is a language written in tags that will allow a computer to understand such codes. HTML is basically our way of communicating with computers, since computers don't speak human language. So with HTML we can tell a computer what we want it to do.
The first thing you need to know about HTML tags is that they are always placed within tags. Hence the name. These tags usually begin with an open tag < > and end in a closed tag </> . Notice that the only change is that the end tag has a slash between the less than and greater than signs.
In HTML, the order that the tags are placed in are extrememly important.
Example 1: <b>hey</b> --> This would make the word "hey" bold.
Example 2: <u>hey</u> --> This would make the word "hey" underlined
If we want to combine the two tags <b> & </b> with <u> & </u> we must write it as <b><u>hey</u></b> .
Since the word "hey" is being changed, it must always stay in the center. While the tags that change the word must always surround it. And the tag that starts first must also be the tag that ends last. In this case, <b> must be written first and </b> must be written last. <u> would be the next to come and since it is the tag that is written second, </u> must be written second to last.
<b><u>hey</b></u>
The order here is incorrect! Since the bold tag goes first it should end first as well.
When you write an HTML script, you must always start off with <html> and end the script with </html>. That way your browser will know that the script is in HTML format and not in a different type of coding.
The set of tags that comes next are the head tags. Then comes <title> and </title>. As they are labeled, the title tags create the title of the page. Therefore, the word/words within the tags will be shown way at the top of the page. These are pretty important as for they allow the viewer to differentiate your page from another page.
Example: <title>Welcome!</title> would title the page "Welcome!".
After the title tags would come the body tags. Below is a preview of how the layout of a proper HTML script should look like.
<html>
<head>
<title>Lucky Anime</title>
</head>
<body>
Welcome to my site!
</body>
</html>
According to the script above, the title of the page would be "Lucky Anime" and a text would appear on the web page stating "Welcome to my site!".
Also notice that in the setup shown above and in any HTML script, order is very important! The tags must be placed correctly or it will not turn out right.
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