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Introduction to HTML HTML stands for Hyper Text Mar up Language. This is not a programming language l i e java, Perl, C. It is a simple mar up language. It’s a way of describing how a set of text and images should be displayed to the viewer, similar in concept to a newspaper editor’s mar up symbols. The document prepared through this language is a special ind of text document t hat is used by Web browsers to present text and graphics. The text includes mar up tags such as

to indicate the start of a paragraph, and

to indent the end of a paragraph. HTML documents are also referred as “Web pages”. The browser pa ges from Web servers that can be anywhere in the World through the Internet. HTML has not been around for many years. November 1990 mar s the day of the firs t web page and bac then there were little to no HTML standards to be followed. A group called the World Wide Web consortium was then formed and has since set t he standards that are widely accepted and we will base our teachings around them . HTML consists of a series of short codes typed into a text-file by the site auth or — these are the tags. The text is then saved as a html file, and viewed through a browser, li e Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. This browser reads the file and translates the text into a visible form, hopefully rendering the page as the author had intended. Writing your own HTML entails using tags correctly t o create your vision. You can use anything from a rudimentary text-editor to a p owerful graphical editor to create HTML pages. The tags are what separate normal text from HTML code. You might now them as th e words between the . They allow all the cool stuff li e images and tables and stuff, just by telling your browser what to render on the page. D ifferent tags will perform different functions. The tags themselves don’t appear w hen you view your page through a browser, but their effects do. The simplest tag s do nothing more than apply formatting to some text, li e this: These words will be bold, and these will not. In the example above, the tags were wrapped around some text, and their effe ct will be that the contained text will be bolded when viewed. 1. Heading Tag This tag is used to print heading using any one of six tag ,