IGNOU PROJECT: HTML Basics Studies & Important description Part II

HTML Basics Studies for Students Part II

1. Absolutely Essential in HTML

< !DOCTYPE…> The DOCTYPE preprocessor information (needed for XHTML) and

<html > </html> …….. The HTML tag

       <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"

     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html>

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html lang=’en’>

                 <meta charset="UTF-8">  AFTER the head tag

           Copy one of the two above into the start of your page.

           Either way your document must end with </html>

Everything in between the <html> and </html> is interpreted as (X)HTML.

As you saw just above, in HTML5 you must specify the lang attribute, but in

XHTML it is optional.

<head> </head> …….. The head tag

Again, opening and closing tags.

The header contains the title and will often contain your JavaScript code.

Often the header also contains meta-tags (keywords about the content of your

page to make it easier for search engines to find it.)

Any text between the tags will be in bold face.

There will be a blank line after your headings.

Heading sizes go from <h1> </h1> (biggest) down to <h6> </h6> (smallest).

<\title> </title> …… The title tag

Opening and closing tags.

The title is what is displayed at the bottom of your browser.

It should be informative.

Do not add spaces between the tags and the title:

<title>The right way to make a title </title>

<title> The wrong way to make a title </title>

<body> </body> …… The body tag

The body has everything that's not in the header.

It comes after the header, so that by the time the body is executed anything in

the header has been read.

 The Comment tag

Anything between these tags is ignored by HTML.

This is where you put important information to document the code :

· Your name

· The date you wrote this code and the date of any subsequent revisions

· References - This code from such and such a book, page ….etc.

You will also use to enclose JavaScript code, so that HTML doesn't try to execute it.